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`His latest Louie Knight mystery ... promises more over-the-top Welsh noir'
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'Hilarious' Daily Telegraph 'Malcolm Pryce is the king of Welsh noir Edgar Allan Poe meets Phoenix Nights in a flurry of blood-stained absurdity' Sunday Telegraph 'Inventive, funny and dark, Pryce packs more style into a sentence than most authors could hope for in volumes' Big Issue 'Pryce really is in a league of his own. If only Aberystwyth really was like this' Time Out
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A Christmas setting for Louie Knight this time, but there's not much "comfort and joy" in Aberystwyth. A man in a Santa Claus suit has been viciously murdered and his body left in a state that wouldn't be out of place in the Da Vinci Code!! I loved its absurdity and fabulously descriptive writing, as I did with the other "Aberystwyth" novels, but I found this one much more reflective, a little darker and to be honest, much sadder, as many more brutal and needless killings occur. Of all four books, I think this one deserves the genre description "noir" the most. Very inventive and joyously ridiculous in parts, but not as many laughs this time, and some unfinished business - is the pin still in Mrs Llantrisant's photo?
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As the other reviewer pointed out, probably the darkest of the four books, but not without great comedy moments. Answers the question of what Welsh hitmen should look like, and worth price of admission for that alone. Confusing from beginning to end, but that is after all the mark of a good noir detective story. Enjoy.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When you look at the ingredients of this book - dead Santas, Nazi hunters, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Welsh Secret Service - you'd be forgiven for assuming it to be a deranged work of bewildering surrealism. Malcolm Pryce, however, has the knack of making the bizarre seem believable - the oddness never hinders the plot and thus you're left with a genuinely gripping and inventive thriller populated with some undeniably unusual yet never ludicrous characters.
Much of the success of this series is down to Pryce's prose which is brilliantly evocative and leaves many better-known writers in the shade. In an ideal world Pryce would be as big as Pratchett.
One niggle - the Louie Knight books are promoted as comedies (the jacket describes this one as "hilarious") but they've never been over-burdened with laughs and, as other reviewers have mentioned, this volume is darker still. A little less introspection and a few more laughs would be nice next time.
Much of the success of this series is down to Pryce's prose which is brilliantly evocative and leaves many better-known writers in the shade. In an ideal world Pryce would be as big as Pratchett.
One niggle - the Louie Knight books are promoted as comedies (the jacket describes this one as "hilarious") but they've never been over-burdened with laughs and, as other reviewers have mentioned, this volume is darker still. A little less introspection and a few more laughs would be nice next time.
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Malcolm Pryce delivers everything I need for my reading pleasure.
Great use of language, witty observation, and mad plots. Read more
Great use of language, witty observation, and mad plots. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. R. E. J. Stradling
the darkest, and the best yet
This is a very funny book. Superb prose, outstanding prose - paints pictures, creates images, makes you stop to pause with pleasure that you're reading such a well crafted... Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2009 by J. Darby
It's gripping and violent- there's lovely
I bought this because I had an hour to spare as I had missed my train, and the cover picture looked interesting. I'm working through the others in the series now. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2009 by P. Taylor
Does something different from what it says on the Tin
I bought the first of the Aberystwyth books recently because the cover reminded me of Jasper Fforde's "Nursery Crime" series, and he hasn't finished any new books lately. Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2008 by Alun Williams
Merely Entertaining
Ok, now I have read all Louie Knight books, well the ones that have been published so far.
I find a common problem to them all. Read more
I find a common problem to them all. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2008 by J. M. Salinas
Beautifully Noir
These books are funny in a League of Gentlemen type way, deeply disturbing, macabre and with a strong vein of tragedy through them all. The quality of the writing is excellent. Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2007 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
Darker - but darkly funny too
Unlike the other reviewers below I thought this the funniest of the four by a long way, but, like the story, the humour is darker and rather than dancing in front of you like a... Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2007 by Ian Burdon
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