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An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity: Love, betrayal and genteel crime by [Campbell, Stuart]
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  • Publisher: Stuart Campbell; 1 edition (17 Dec. 2014)
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  • Language: English
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5.0 out of 5 starsA beautifully crafted, off-key story of murder, mystery, misunderstanding and misdirection.
By Kind, Jovial, Decisive on 14 April 2016
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Told in first person by the three leading characters—Jack, the husband, Thea, the wife, and Fiona, the possibly deranged cop—this is a tour de force by Mr Campbell.

The married couple is well realised, believable, and described with all their faults and insecurities, but neither is completely likeable. Jack is weak and Thea is cold, and both have guilty secrets to hide from the authorities and from each other. I had a slight problem with the motivation of the detective, Fiona, which seems extremely suspect at first. By the end of the story, though, Mr Campbell explained her rather strange behaviour to my satisfaction. In fact, the whole story arc is extremely well handled, and, I can see this working well as a three-handed play.

By necessity, the minor characters are less well defined, but that didn’t detract from my enjoyment. They did what they needed to do by acting as antagonists and moving the story along rather well.

I have only one extremely minor gripe. One scene—the one with the golf clubs (no spoilers)—came as a complete surprise and should have left me shocked, shattered, and angry. Unfortunately, it didn’t, which probably had something to do with matter-of-fact way the victim reacted to it left me somewhat underwhelmed and a little disappointed. More should have been made of the outcome and the payback. In fact, I wanted more of this part of the story, but Mr Campbell preferred to leave us hanging. As I said, it is a minor gripe, but enough to cost the novel half a star on my arbitrary and rather harsh rating scale.

All that being said, I have no hesitation to recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys well-written, well-constructed, off-key, and darkly humorous stories. Nice work, Mr Campbell. Nice work indeed.
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5.0 out of 5 starsForty Apple Trees....the place to be!
By John Smith on 17 Jan. 2016
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I find it refreshing to read a book from a different genre to the one that I am used to. The language and expressions are different, the writer's mind is working differently. Personally, I find it blows the cobwebs away from long-dormant corners of my mind.
To begin with, I wasn't impressed with the characters. They seemed smug, overprivileged, vain and selfish, cocooned in their twee world of self-satisfaction. But I persevered, and was rewarded. They started to grow on me, and within themselves, and I began to appreciate their creator's dry wit in the background. Sometimes I stopped to go back and read a sentence again and, sure enough, I had missed a throwaway line that was delivered in a matter-of-fact, almost deadpan manner, which on closer scrutiny was absolutely hilarious. So I slowed my reading speed right down. And this is the way I became used to this author's style; first tongue-in-cheek, then laugh- out-loud. Sometimes subtle, sometimes over the top. The narration of a completely fantastical chain of events, so enjoyable that it didn't matter if sometimes they were highly improbable. The reader wanted to believe that they could happen, so they became real enough. It was then that I entered the world of these characters and truly began to enjoy myself, because I began to care more about them, their myriad weaknesses gradually becoming endearing rather than off-putting.
This is Fiona;
"A keen breeze ruffled the apple trees, bringing a distant whiff of something rural and sour. I slid a few inches along the bench to find some sun. I asked for a glass of water."
And this is Jack;
"Do come in," the man said without hesitation. He was thin, shaven headed, and wearing a dressing gown. "Actually I think I've got the wrong house," I said.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA highly enjoyable mystery that plumbs the depths of human foibles
By Francis Guenette on 11 Jan. 2016
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People see the world through personal and often flawed lenses. A good author leads the reader into a character’s thoughts and actions. At some point, the reader is forced to question the characters take on what’s happening. In, An Englishman’s Guide to Infidelity, Stuart Campbell proves himself to be particularly deft in his ability to create unreliable narrators.

The book opens with Jack and Thea as they prepare for a dinner out to celebrate their wedding anniversary. It isn’t long before it is patently obvious that dark currents lurk beneath the surface of both these people. By the end of the first chapter any illusions of normalcy are long gone. Thea is clearly an ethics professor who lacks ethics and Jack is relating that there are ten university degrees among his fellow group of inmates awaiting trial at the Remand Center.

And so the reader enters a roller-coaster ride as the author moves deftly from Jack’s perspective, to that of a young police woman struggling with her own issues when she is pulled into a murder investigation, to Thea’s. It isn’t long before the reader comes to see that not one of these characters can be trusted.

The writing is smooth and delicious. A couple of old people move like a pair of flapping galleons; a father speaks like a piece of stainless steel medical equipment, when he speaks at all; an apartment is sparsely furnished with desperately modern pieces and abstract paintings that veered between the decorative and the sadomasochistic.

A thoroughly enjoyable read, a mystery that unfurls with just enough twists and turns to keep readers guessing right to the closing pages.
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