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"Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica" (DEADLY PLEASURES )
'In its urgency and rawness... KILL-DEVIL AND WATER goes further than simply clever and diverting literary appropriation.' (Heather O'Donoghue TLS )
"Novel of the Week: A riproaring addition to the bestselling Pyke series" (PRESS ASSOCIATION )
'In its urgency and rawness... KILL-DEVIL AND WATER goes further than simply clever and diverting literary appropriation.' (Heather O'Donoghue TLS )
"Novel of the Week: A riproaring addition to the bestselling Pyke series" (PRESS ASSOCIATION )
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'In its urgency and rawness... KILL-DEVIL AND WATER goes further than simply clever and diverting literary appropriation.'
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another cracking historical mystery,
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This review is from: Kill-Devil And Water: A Pyke Mystery (Pyke Mysteries) (Hardcover)
Kill-Devil and Water is the 3rd instalment in the Pyke series and it's another cracking read. The pace is terrific and the story line sweeps from London's back streets to Jamaica's plantations. The descriptions of life in 1840 are so good at one point while the action moved into a butchers shop I actually smelt the smells of butchers shop, I haven't stepped foot in butchers shop for 20 years, but the memory and the smells came flooding back. Pyke is struggling to become a better man and father after being released from debtors prison and becomes obsessed with finding the killer of a young woman brutally murdered in an effort to prove his worth to his son.
This series reminds me more and more of Raymond Chandler, the writing is that good, the pain of a man trying to be good in a world that demands he be cruel and his anger at wealth, greed and corruption is worthy of the master himself. Exciting, poignant, compelling reading for fans of historical and crime literature alike. If you haven't discovered the Pyke series yet, jump in now, lets hope there plenty more to come.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Seedy evil-doing in Dickensian England,
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This review is from: Kill-Devil And Water: A Pyke Mystery (Pyke Mysteries) (Paperback)
Pyke is Back! For those of you who don't yet know him he is a Dickensian crime solver. However do not expect hours of meticulous evidence gathering, cross examining of witnesses, collaboration with a plodding member of the Met and the final delivering of his findings to a drawing room full of suspects!
No our hero is more Vinnie Jones than Sherlock Holmes. Expect instead, violent confrontation, questions being asked at the end of a knife, chases through underground sewers and the delivering of 'Rough' justice rather than the Kings justice. Pyke is a delicously volatile and flawed charactor who constantly fails to live up to the standards he sets himself and yet not shy of pronouncing his judgement on others. This episode finds him in debtors prison before his old friend Tilling secures him a release to help the newly founded Police force in a particularly grisly murder. An investigation that will see him mixing with the usual gutter scum that always seem to feature in Pyke mysteries as well as organised mobsters and the seedier side of high society and will see him travel from the East End to the West Indies! I will not go further into the plot for spoiling reasons but needless to say the initial murder leads to a more sinister and complex plot that gives Pyke full license to excersise his resourceful yet brutal methods. This is an absorbing and entertaining read that gives an excellent murder mystery thriller as well as a well researched and graphic accounts of early Victorian inner city living, where life is as seemingly cheap as the Gin. I did at times get a little frustrated with Pyke's singular style (find suspect and threaten to kill him horribly if he doesn't spill the beans) and I am a little mystified as to why everyone, from crime lords to the ladies are always so drawn and sympathetic to him. Yet I find myself always on his side too, perhaps because of all his obvious flaws rather than despite them, he's kind of a slightly psychopathic Dickensian 'Rebus' figure, self loathing and ever willing to fall back on to the consolation of the bottle. A very good book and I am hoping for more Pyke action soon and maybe a TV adaptation would be good too! well done Andrew Pepper.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Kill Devil and Water: A Pyke Mystery,
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This review is from: Kill-Devil And Water: A Pyke Mystery (Pyke Mysteries) (Paperback)
I've just finished reading this and I loved it. Lots of twists and turns and I didn't see the ending coming at all, even went back to re-read part of it but didn't "get it" till it became clear. Thoroughly enjoyed it, could highly recommend it to anyone who likes murder mystery novels. I like Agatha Christie, Lynda la Plante, Patricia Cornwell and Val McDermaid too.
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