Bone Dancing

Clare Burtonall #4

by Jonathan Gash

Dr. Clare Burtonall is a hard working Manchester-based doctor. However her private life is unconventional with her boyfriend Bonn being a male escort. If that wasn't enough, Clare's job is fraught with danger. Working with the police and helping them investigate suspicious deaths, she is constantly at risk and now she is becoming involved in the shocking tragic workings of the Manchester underworld.

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First published January 28, 2003

About the author

John Grant is an English crime writer, who writes under the pen name Jonathan Gash. He is the author of the Lovejoy series of novels. He wrote the novel The Incomer under the pen name Graham Gaunt.

Grant is a doctor by training and worked as a general practitioner and pathologist. He served in the British Army and attained the rank of Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was head of bacteriology at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the University of London between 1971 and 1988.

Grant won the John Creasey Award in 1977 for his first Lovejoy novel, The Judas Pair. He is also the author of a series of medical thrillers featuring the character Dr. Clare Burtonall.

Grant lives outside Colchester in Essex, the setting for many of his novels. He has also been published in Postscripts.

Reviews

[Kathleen Robson · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't even know how to categoraise this book. First of all it was dreadful - very badly written, bad story and thinly drawn characters, with no real ending to speak of. It's essentially about a doctor, Clare, who is seeing a male escort, Bonn, and is obsessed with him. He has an unlikely past in the Church and, although oddly uncommunicative, seems to be the only person in the novel with any moral compass. The most annoying element of the writing was that the author kept throwing in odd made-up words and phrases in the style of A Clockwork Orange, as if the novel's inhabitants lived in a parallel society. I found it kept distrcting me from the narrative flow and was totally unecessary. There's a sub plot involving a young boy who has run away from an abusive existance in a home run by the Christian brothers. But basically don't bother with this one, it's not worth it your time.

[Paula R C R. C. Readman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the characters, brilliant plot line.