The Bedlam Detective

I received this book as a goodreads giveaway. I have to say that when I started the book I thought it was a good read, nothing special, but about a third the way through I could not put it down. The Bedlam Detective has excellent details of the period and plenty of twists. Several days after finishi......more

Abandoned. Story ok. Writing too. Fragmented. No flow. Very. Difficult. To read.......more

Steve Gallagher has probably caused me more lost sleep than any other thriller writer -- I can remember reading, heavy-eyed, into the early hours to finish Valley of Lights, Nightmare, with Angel, Red, Red Robin and others -- so I'm not sure why I've let so long go by since last I read one of his no......more

The subtitle is a bit confusing: this is a novel as much as it is a mystery (and this goes back to the question I've been asking for the past year or so - why are we using "a novel" as a subtitle? is there the risk we can't tell fact from fiction?). There are two intertwined questions here, the first......more

Monsters dwell in the shadows and in the hard light of day. They are among us. They sit next to us, chat with us, and dine with us. We only acknowledge their existence when their actions cause harm. The Bedlam Detective breaks down the monstrous form and makes you see that everyone is capable of mon......more