Mr Todd's Reckoning

This is my first book by Iain Maitland and I am still trying to get my head around this book and write a coherent review, so forgive me if I start rambling, but hopefully by the end of this you will get the gist of what I am trying to say. Mr Todd’s Reckoning is so dark you need to read with the lig......more

Lock your doors, secure your windows. There’s a suburban psychopath on the loose. In a quiet street, in the midst of a stifling heatwave, live Mr Todd and his 25 year old son, Adrian. Adrian is unemployed, on medication and slowly driving his father mad. Their bungalow is not big enough for the two......more

When I was a child, I had the very good fortune of an open-minded mum who allowed me to watch programmes not entirely suited to my young age, Tales of the Unexpected being a good example of this. Perhaps because of this my taste in crime fiction has always swayed to the darker content, and from the......more

It’s a hot and humid summer in a town in the south of England, mirrored by the claustrophobic and uncomfortable relationship in the house in which Malcolm Todd and his adult son, Adrian, live. The tension between the two men is palpable. There is a gradual reveal as to what has been lurking just out......more

Malcolm Todd and son Adrian live in uneasy companionship. I don’t really want to write a review of Mr Todd’s Reckoning because it is such a fabulous book I don’t think I’ll be able to do it justice. Iain Maitland’s prose is sparse, gripping and mesmerising. The tension in Mr Todd’s Reckoning builds an......more