It is even necessary to return to the origin of everything. Despite the maxim that you should never go back to the places where you were happy, the noir genre and even current thrillers need a reset from time to time. More than anything for the average reader crammed with impossible twists; technology at the service of criminology; outlined minds more than twisted in search of the reader's surprise ...
That all this is very good, but as I say it is cool and a lot to recover the essences of poorly made literature and even cinema thanks to powerful imaginary such as those of Agatha Christie o Hitchcock. Two totems today seen with melancholy and to a naive point but that shelter that detachment from the ominous as narrative defloration.
A new voice like that of Stephen Spotwood begins its literary takeoff with this novel that draws from those settings between enchanting and chilling of the mid-twentieth century for a genre noir fixed more on investigation and deduction than on the recreation itself of death and its current morbidity.
Synopsis
Willowjean Parker has been the assistant to the famous detective Lillian Pentecost for three years. Will ran away from home when she was still a child and joined a circus where she learned everything. Lillian, suffering from sclerosis, agreed with her in one of her investigations and offered to be her assistant.
Now, Will and Lillian face the investigation into the death of Abigail Collins, the widow of one of the city's moguls who has made a fortune from arms sales in the recent European war. But this will not be an ordinary investigation and the lives of Will and Lillian will suffer the consequences. Will your relationship come out unscathed? And your heart?