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John Madden is quite an interesting character. Just enough baggage to make him human but not so much that one wonders how he can put one foot in front of another without falling down.
One of the most satisfying aspects of reading fiction set in the interwar years is the many ways large and small authors use to explain and describe the depth of the marks the great war left on the survivors, both military and civilian. Airth skillfully weaves it all together as each character picks up a thread of the aftermath - Madden as the stoic, Styles as the grumbling left-behind, Helen Blackwell as the woman charged with remembrance, and the ultimate villain as the dark heart of the confl
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et in the 1920s but written very much as a modern day thriller, seeing the story from both the point of view of the police and of the villain. A very good read, not only because it's an excellent thriller and intricate plot but also for the historical detail of police work in the 1920s. I loved it.
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