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Slowly but surely, Rennie Airth has been building a reputation as one of the most solid and accomplished practitioners of the intelligent crime thriller, with an ironclad combination of adroit storytelling skills and carefully wrought characterisation (something of a speciality for this author). The Dead of Winter is the latest example of Airth's finely-honed art, and is as impressive and involving as such predecessors as Rivers of Darkness and The Blood-Dimmed Tide, (the first two parts of this trilogy).
We are once again in the company of troubled copper John Madden, the time period having moved on from the first books to the Second World War. It is the time of Churchill’s radio broadcasts, the blackout and the ever-present threat of V2 bombs. Near the British Museum in London, a young woman refugee from war-torn Poland is killed. She had been engaged as a landgirl on a farm where she had won the affection of the farmer and his wife -- and that farmer is John Madden, no longer utilising his detection skills for Scotland Yard. But he is prepared to aid his ex-comrades in this disturbing situation, and utilises his still-keen expertise to dig into the murder. Madden becomes aware that the killer is almost certainly a professional hitman. Why did he murder his Polish victim? It’s up to John Madden to construct a plausible case from a slender assortment of clues – and, what’s more, in the face of considerable personal danger.
Those who read Rennie Airth’s earlier books will need little persuasion to pick The Dead of Winter up; and new readers will be entranced by the carefully constructed narrative and strong sense of period. --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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`A superlative detective novel from a writer who creates complicated narratives populated by fully realised characters. He has an enviable ability to evoke rural landscape as well as teeming metropolitan life, particularly the menace of a London perpetually shrouded by darkness. Airth's John Madden novels are must-reads.' --Daily Express
`Compelling . . . Airth's atmosphere of London at war is superb' --The Times
`Rennie Airth has created a spellbinding series of mysteries set in the bygone England of our imagination. His detective, John Madden, is the sort of wise and reticent man you would trust with your life, and it is deeply satisfying to see him solve the complex puzzles that Airth sets for him. "The Dead of Winter" is the latest gripping installment in what's becoming my favorite series of British crime novels.' --David Ignatius,(columnist for the Washington Post )
`This book has the blissful whiff of nostalgia, of mahogany furniture in wallpapered rooms, of dependable policemen and respectful lower orders. Yet this is no idyllic evocation of the Golden Age of crime writing. This world is about to be, literally, blown away, for the action takes place in wartime London, where the old order is beginning to turn upside down. The book is darker than the mythology of London during the Blitz: the black market thrives, crime flourishes and a police force largely made up of men too old to fight has little power to stop it . . . --The Independent
`The author's fine sense of time and place bring 1940's England to life'
--Choice
`The comfortable, leisurely rhythm of Rennie Airth's writing and the affectionate way in which he conveys wartime Britain are very pleasurable . . . If you like your detective fiction with a dose of nostalgia, or if you are already a John Madden fan, then this latest mystery will not disappoint. In its particular and unusual way it is, once again, very well done' --Spectator
`What engages one and carries one along is his powerful and detailed grasp of narrative, his observation of the natural world and his gift for striking imagery'
--Oldie --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
`Compelling . . . Airth's atmosphere of London at war is superb' --The Times
`Rennie Airth has created a spellbinding series of mysteries set in the bygone England of our imagination. His detective, John Madden, is the sort of wise and reticent man you would trust with your life, and it is deeply satisfying to see him solve the complex puzzles that Airth sets for him. "The Dead of Winter" is the latest gripping installment in what's becoming my favorite series of British crime novels.' --David Ignatius,(columnist for the Washington Post )
`This book has the blissful whiff of nostalgia, of mahogany furniture in wallpapered rooms, of dependable policemen and respectful lower orders. Yet this is no idyllic evocation of the Golden Age of crime writing. This world is about to be, literally, blown away, for the action takes place in wartime London, where the old order is beginning to turn upside down. The book is darker than the mythology of London during the Blitz: the black market thrives, crime flourishes and a police force largely made up of men too old to fight has little power to stop it . . . --The Independent
`The author's fine sense of time and place bring 1940's England to life'
--Choice
`The comfortable, leisurely rhythm of Rennie Airth's writing and the affectionate way in which he conveys wartime Britain are very pleasurable . . . If you like your detective fiction with a dose of nostalgia, or if you are already a John Madden fan, then this latest mystery will not disappoint. In its particular and unusual way it is, once again, very well done' --Spectator
`What engages one and carries one along is his powerful and detailed grasp of narrative, his observation of the natural world and his gift for striking imagery'
--Oldie --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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