White Riot by Joe Thomas; Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy; Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes and more...
The first part of a proposed United Kingdom Trilogy, White Riot is a timely, powerful and gorgeously readable novel that represents everything that is good and important about the crime fiction genre., the debut novel from Irish author Kitty Murphy, is set in the fabulous world of Dublin’s drag scene.
Death in Heels offers a fresh take on the traditional murder mystery. The drag queens bitchily refer to Fi as “Hagatha Christie” when she starts investigating Eve’s death. The novel is at its strongest when Murphy is exploring identities in flux, especially the contrasts between the drag queens’ public personas and their private selves .
A Tony Award-winner for his musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and the songwriter who gave us Escape , Holmes has an unusual way of exploring the genre’s conventions. His sense of humour, however, is an acquired taste – it is no exaggeration to say there’s about three puns on every page, few of them worthy of the space. His inability to deliver a unique voice, or even tone, for each of his main characters means that it is difficult to care as their adventures grow absurdly convoluted.
“As much as Lucinda feared she was the wrong person to be in charge of investigating her sister’s disappearance, there was no one else.” So begins by Brazilian author Simone de Campos, translated by Rahul Bery. Based in Rio, Lucinda takes a call from Graziane, a friend of her younger sister Viviana, to say that Viviana, a model, has failed to arrive in São Paulo. With the police unwilling to help, Lucinda has no choice but to fly to São Paulo.
The novel segues into an extended character study of Viviana, “a mixed-race woman who doesn’t bow her head in submission”, as de Campos explores Brazilian attitudes to race, class, prostitution and women.
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