The Yard Alex Grecian Review

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The yard alex grecian review.

Newly promoted detective walter day is given the responsibility of finding the murderer of a fellow detective who has been gruesomely stuffed into a trunk. Reviews from the american library assoc. Alex grecian s the yard is a brilliantly crafted debut novel with unforgettable characters. Alex grecian has given us a solid bit of insight into the early days of scotland yard and the development of police work as we know it today.

Review by barbara clark june 11 2012 one of the lasting attractions of alex grecian s debut historical crime novel the yard is the fascinating way it lets readers in on the dramatic differences and particulars of another era without seeming ponderous or lecture y. This deliciously trashy first novel by alex grecian walks the genre back to the era of jack the ripper with its. The writing style of alex grecian literally transports you back to those victorian days of england but not into the lives of the upper crust but into the lives of the london working class and the poor. Grecian creates a large and eccentric cast of characters including a detective inspector who can t stop making jokes usually bad puns a mentally disturbed dancing man a brutal tailor whose telltale shears are used in untoward ways the seductive wife of a doctor and two coldblooded prostitutes now perpetrators of crime rather than victims.

S lick and sick is how fictional serial killers generally come these days but not in debut novelist alex grecian s historical thriller the yard where the murderer stumbles from killing to. It s set in london in 1889 and is a novel about the early days of the murder squad. Grecian has a fine flexible curious voice and the yard looks as if it could be the start of a promising series. Indeed the enterprising blackleg on his own could profitably drive a sequel and.

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