From enthralling puzzles to two distinctive novels that bring mystery writing to bear on the crimes of resurgent fascism
The Collaborators begins dramatically when a Belarusian fighter jet forces a passenger plane to land. Several travellers are removed, including a mysterious couple and a blogger trying to flee Russia posthaste, fearing the Kremlin’s learned that he’s one of Ari’s sources. Across the globe, Maya awakens to her billionaire father’s suicide note, and the news that his investment management fund is suddenly empty.
The story centres on Roman Grady, his partner Ashley Lillian, their young son Mason, Roman’s mother, Tara, and her fiancé, John, all of whom share the family home. Roman and Ashley almost escaped the town, Ashley as a yoga instructor and Roman for a fellowship at the Los Angeles Times, before an unplanned pregnancy and Covid restrictions kept them stuck in place.
Two distinctive recent novels – Rachel Donohue’s The Glass House and TC Parker’s Tradwife – bring mystery writing to bear on the crimes of resurgent fascism. revolve around the burden of memories. Most of these concern a family saga, largely narrated by Aisling Acklehurst as it shifts between 1963 and 1999.
Cutting even closer are the crimes she learns he’s committed in their home. He’ll pay for those crimes on a snowy New Year’s Eve, a night that complicates the sisters’ bond. Over 30 years later, they return to Galway for a final confrontation with their father’s followers, specious academics trying to make his fascism a cottage industry and his home a pilgrimage site for a new far right.
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