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'Reminiscent of the dislocation and dream-infested landscape that inhabits Auster's work ... Alice Thompson has bent the detective novel to her own will and produced something rather exciting.' Louise Welsh, Scottish Review of Books 'Alice Thompson ... grabs hold of the detective fiction tradition, flings it in the air, lets it crash to the floor, and jumps on it till it's in smithereens. She then reconstructs it into something that doesn't yet have a name ... The Existential Detective is unsettling, unsettlingly erotic, and somehow sadly beautiful. Thompson is fast becoming one of the most original and formidable writers in the English language today.' The Sunday Herald 'Haunting, strange, Kafkaesque, poetic mystery set in Portobello.' Ian Rankin 'A deeply moving and compelling read, packed with mysterious goings-on and bloodcurdling shocks, all counterbalanced by the author's trademark subtle and elegant prose ... Remarkable.' Camille Pia, The List
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William Blake is a private detective in Portobello. When he agrees to investigate the disappearance of Louise, the wife of scientist Dr Adam Verver, he finds himself entangled in layers of deceptions and disappearances that lead him inexorably back to unsolved mysteries in his own past.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Existential Detective is very literary detective story, set in Edinburgh's Portobello. It's beautifully written with spare, elegant prose that doesn't waste a word, but the book is a page-turner of the first order.
The story is quite dark, with subject matter ranging over murder, prostitution, kidnapping and more, but is not voyeuristic and is much less depressing than the themes might suggest.
Although very much her own writer, Alice Thompson reminds me a little of Angela Carter (my favourite author) in her style, and perhaps even more of Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry).
The publisher (Two Ravens Press) has clearly gone to some trouble to produce a physically high-quality paperback, which immediately reminded me of Faber and Faber when I opened it.
Strongly recommended.
The story is quite dark, with subject matter ranging over murder, prostitution, kidnapping and more, but is not voyeuristic and is much less depressing than the themes might suggest.
Although very much her own writer, Alice Thompson reminds me a little of Angela Carter (my favourite author) in her style, and perhaps even more of Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry).
The publisher (Two Ravens Press) has clearly gone to some trouble to produce a physically high-quality paperback, which immediately reminded me of Faber and Faber when I opened it.
Strongly recommended.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A gripping read from start to finish. Good twists and a quite unexpected ending. Leaves you questioning.
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