![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Familiar DarkĮve has been anticipating disaster from the second her daughter Junie was born. Layered and clever, Rules for Perfect Murders is an ode to the genre of mystery writing, with its obsessive protagonist Kershaw, a man who wonders what Ian Fleming would have his hero do in times of crisis – and who bemoans the fact that being an avid reader of mysteries is no preparation for real life. This is a fiendishly good slice of crime fiction from Swanson, who goes from strength to strength. Their deaths appear to be linked with the likes of Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Tr ain and James M Cain’s Double Indemnity. He is contacted by an FBI agent, Gwen Mulvey, who believes someone has been using the blog he wrote years earlier – in which Kershaw picks eight “perfect” murders in fiction – to knock off a host of real victims. Malcolm Kershaw runs a bookstore in Boston specialising in mystery fiction. ![]()
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