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Small Vices (A&B Crime) (Hardcover)

by David Armstrong (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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  • Hardcover: 254 pages
  • Publisher: Allison & Busby (5 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749005076
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749005078
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 648,320 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Peopled with believable characters who fumble their way through realistic relationships [Armstong's work] has a certain sly humour and a great deal of understated warmth' Times Literary Supplement 'Excellent atmospheric thriller [with] a strong cast of flawed characters' Daily Telegraph 'David Armstrong is a new and arresting talent' Financial Times 'Quite Brilliant' The Sunday Times


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Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. King Lear Act: 4 vi Lovers DC Jane Salt and Inspector Frank Kavanagh are separated by their work. She is in London investigating a series of audacious cash heists while he is Birmingham struggling to find a serial killer targeting the city's prostitutes. Can information provided by a young eco-warrior help the police prevent the death of another street girl? Meanwhile advances in DNA profiling are threatening to ruin the reputation of the newly appointed 'drug star' Michael Hyland. Desperate to protect himself he begins calling in favours from contacts in high places - a dangerous strategy that soon finds him in trouble...Small Vices is a thrilling and cleverly plotted new novel, tackling contemporary issues head on with Armstrong's characteristic dark humour.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Another dagger-contender from David Armstrong, 15 Dec 2001
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Frank Kavanagh is separated from Jane Salt while he gets involved with a serial-killer case in Birmingham. There he is seduced by his ex-wife and takes time-out to review his life.
Armstrong keeps tabs on both of them and again demonstrates his ability to wander freely inside Kavanagh's head. It's not always a comfortable place to be but it is a place that most of us will recognise.
There is a mystery here and there is another element better known as a why-dun-it. There is corruption and vice here, and brilliant insight and bungling. Kavanagh is not one of those cops you don't believe in, his character carries the ring of truth. He's not a super-star but a real flesh and blood early twenty-first century man.
But above all the vicissitudes of plot and verisimilitude it is the writing that takes this book out of its genre and into the realm of the best contemporary fiction.
Everything, the characters, the plot, the sense of place and the compassion and humour are all constructs of language. Of eloquence.
The gold dagger for fiction has been awarded outside of the UK the last couple of years. David Armstrong's book is a strong contender to bring it back home.
John Baker.
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