Carrie,
Re your comment below:
> I just started "A Small Death in Lisbon" by
Robert
> Wilson, which seems to be
> a hybrid of police procedural and wartime
thriller.
> . . . Anyway, I'm quite hooked
> by Wilson's writing
> just based on the first few chapters . .
.
> so i guess i'm
> basically curious if
> anybody's read the books, how they rate, and
where
> Wilson fits in terms of
> genre.
I tried to start LISBON myself a few weeks ago, and had a
harder time getting into it then you're having. I thought it
was well-written, but I found the switches back and forth
between the present-day police investigation and the WW2
stuff annoying. I'd've preferred it if all the cop stuff was
together and all the war stuff was together, but I was
irritated when, just as I was getting into the murder case, I
was suddenly thrust back into wartime Europe, then just as I
was getting into the war stuff, I was yanked back into
modern-day Portugal. I finally put it aside.
However, Wilson's mystery-writing colleagues apparently
thought very well of the book. It won the CWA Golden Dagger
for Best Novel. I think there's an interview with him
somewhere on CWA's website.
JIM DOHERTY
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