Themes of security, honour, obligation and voyeurism converge into something enticing and engaging under Togawa’s pen.
Tag: crime novel
The Judge and His Hangman: When the reader becomes a pawn in a crime writer’s wicked game
The Judge and His Hangman could be devoured in a single sitting, its haunting contents continuing to unspool for days after the backcover folds over.
The Executioner Weeps: A heady tale of memory loss and dread by Frederic Dard
Reading The Executioner Weeps is reminder of how direct and well-paced a crime novel can be.
Kidnappings and political trappings: Rediscovering Gregory Mcdonald’s Snatch via Hard Case Crime
Wonderfully adept at weaving in new characters, Mcdonald takes a simple melody and orchestrates it into a cacophony of noise. It demands your attention.
Requiem for the Detective Novel: The case for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1958 masterpiece The Pledge
What really happens to a policeman who can’t solve his most important case? What becomes of a pillar of society whose foundations are crumbling?
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