5/18/2023 0 Comments Christine falls book![]() ![]() ![]() OK, he's a superb stylist, but can he plot? This time the question is whether an author famous (or notorious) for novels in which nothing memorable happens, memorably, can keep control of his craft through the hazardous shallows and rapids of Genre Gulch. ![]() The Book of Evidence (1989) played seductively with elements of the murder mystery as well as a scandalous real-life case of that period. In Christine Falls we have the prospect of a distinguished novelist, last year's Booker prizewinner and therefore presumably not short of cash, rebranding himself as Benjamin Black to publish a 300-page thriller which is the first in a projected series featuring a pathologist hero à la Patricia Cornwell.Īctually, John Banville has glanced down these mean streets before. More recently, Julian Barnes writing as Dan Kavanagh and Tim Parks as John MacDowell have produced thrillers (Duffy, Cara Massimina) that cast an interesting light on aspects of the authors' imaginations concerning which the novels published under their own names are reticent. Anton Chekhov's novel The Shooting Party, a moody whodunnit, introduced the sensational plot device which a rather different author with the same initials would reinvent 40 years later in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. ![]()
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