Normally a crime drama, or anything that smells like one, wouldn’t get much of my attention.
It’s nothing personal you understand. It’s just my concern that any tale of violence and blood-letting that’s too close to real CNN headlines serves more as sociopathic training material than relaxing escapism.
That, and the fact I’m skeeved out rather than entertained by realistic stories depicting man’s inhumanity to man. Ghosts being mean to man is perfectly fine.
So when our friends over at Wunderkind PR contacted me about Nightfall promising it was “right up my alley,” I wondered if my alley had suddenly detoured from behind a haunted mansion to behind the city crime lab when I wasn’t looking. I determined to give it no more than a cursory look.
Nightfall’s English author Stephen Leather is the creator of over 20 thrillers which frequently include themes of crime, imprisonment and military service, and lately terrorism: manly pursuits all, but nary a ghost or zombie in sight.
Well to be fair, there was that one from last year, Once Bitten, which had vampires in it… sort of. But I’m not sure even Leather himself counts it since no mention is made of the book even on the author’s own website.
But because in the past Wunderkind has been the source of new material that I have loved much more often than not, I decided to dig a bit deeper when it arrived. After all, Nightfall premiered in the US last week, but in the UK it’s only the first in a series of three novels published there in 2009.
Once again, Wunderkind knew exactly what they were doing.
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