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Dangerous Davies and The Lonely Heart
Dangerous Davies and The Lonely Heart
Oct 31, 2024 7:18 AM

Author:Leslie Thomas

Dangerous Davies and The Lonely Heart

Dangerous is back...

In this, the fourth of Leslie Thomas's novels about Dangerous Davies, the last detective, Davies has retired from the Metropolitan Police and set up as a private eye.

Cases are hard to come by until he is aburptly thrown into two mysteries - the murders of women answering lonely hearts advertisements, and the disappearance of a young girl student, a psychologist and a secret worth millions. But can Davies solve any of the mysteries and will his new career as a private detective be a success?

People with the amazing characters that are the trademark of any book by Leslie Thomas, this is a highly original detective story that is as ingenious as it is touching and funny.

Reviews

Thomas's skill in yoking unlikely elements together is little short of hilarious. Dialogue skips along, people are roundly sketched, places set a vivid mood. Thomas... midway between Archer and Amis, keeps on giving fiction a good name

—— Mail on Sunday

Recomended to anyone who enjoys a good detective yarn with plenty of laughs

—— Express

Lose yourself in Jackson's atmospheric writing as he introduces us to his intriguing Victorian heroine, Sarah Tanner. Jackson is a writer who not only knows his history but who knows how to tell a truly engrossing tale.

—— Gilda O’Neill

He writes with a light touch that makes his darker final chapters all the more disturbing

—— Daily Telegraph

The seventh novel in the best-selling Jack Reacher series. PERSUADER is another gripping thriller

—— OK! Magazine

Jack Reacher is a seriously tough but unbendingly moral loner, a taciturn modern-day Galahad who attracts violence like a magnet ... violent and exciting

—— Irish Independent

Child has a razor-sharp style and crafted seven perfect thrillers ... Think Die Hard without the smirk

—— Playboy

Reacher has no doubts about his objective: to rid the world of the bad guys. And nobody does it better

—— Sunday Telegraph

Captivating...this excellent adventure delivers high drama.

—— NEW YORK TIMES

Mesmerizing...A colourful cast of characters, both good and evil, enhance a tale that will keep readers on edge until the final page.

—— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

This is history as it ought to have been.

—— The Spectator

Against the well-researched background of intrigue and rebellion we are plunged into the uncertain 12th century, in this accomplished and engrossing historical mystery.

—— Good Book Guide

The deserved winner of this year's Ellis Peters Historical Dagger is a cunningly plotted tale set in medieval Cambridge. A serial killer is at large, and the Jews are blamed. Henry I offers protection because he needs the money. He sends a medical examiner - a master of the art of death - to find the killer. Great stuff

—— THE OBSERVER

Gruesome and compelling

—— Evening Standard

Norwegian star Jo Nesbo has obliterated most of his Scandinavian rivals in the bestseller stakes, with The Leopard published in paperback this week... The uncrowned king of Norwegian crime fiction is Jo Nesbo. Books such as The Redbreast (2000) and his imposing novel The Snowman have propelled Nesbo to the heights. Apart from its narrative finesse, his work also provides a coolly objective guide to fluctuations in Norwegian society. There is also a universal feeling that his work is more strikingly individual than that of most of his Scandinavian colleagues... Harry is a lone wolf, a chronic alcoholic separated from his wife and child but in touch with the zeitgeist of his country. And Nesbo gives us a sharp picture of Norwegian society in flux, crammed with relevant detail - as you might expect from an ex-freelance journalist, particularly where the role of the media is described

—— Barry Forshaw , Independent

Nesbo has a skill for dispatching his victims with increasing inventiveness, and he barely lets you draw breath before delivering a virtuoso torture and death scene in the opening chapter

—— Shortlist

The plot is intriguing, and Nesbo's writing is as taught as ever

—— Sunday Times

It's fascinating to discover, from the incident details, what it is like to live for much of the time in a world under snow... Nesbo writes beautifully

—— Jessica Mann , Literary Review

There are passages [which are] so anatomically gruesome...that they can only be properly read through the gaps between protecting fingers

—— Prospect

Norwegian star Jo Nesbo has obliterated most of his Scandinavian rivals in the bestseller stakes, with The Leopard published in paperback this week...The uncrowned king of Norwegian crime fiction is Jo Nesbo. Books such as The Redbreast (2000) and his imposing novel The Snowman have propelled Nesbo to the heights. Apart from its narrative finesse, his work also provides a coolly objective guide to fluctuations in Norwegian society. There is also a universal feeling that his work is more strikingly individual than that of most of his Scandinavian colleagues...Harry is a lone wolf, a chronic alcoholic separated from his wife and child but in touch with the zeitgeist of his country. And Nesbo gives us a sharp picture of Norwegian society in flux, crammed with relevant detail - as you might expect from an ex - freelance journalist, particularly where the role of the media is described

—— Independent
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