Contact Admin. Unfortunately, your access has now expired. Your access to Booklist Online has expired. If you still subscribe to the print magazine, please proceed to your profile page and check your subscriber number against a current magazine mailing label. If your print subscription has lapsed, you will need to renew.
You must be logged in to read full text of reviews. Was it Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train — the explanation du jour for everything in the genre—that prompted the explosion of stand-alone thrillers, and especially those utilizing unreliable narrators and emphasizing psychological suspense?
Out of jail and getting by as a PI, Joe is reenergized when the woman who accused him of assault admits off the record to taking part in the frame-up. Mosley writes with great power here about themes that have permeated his work: To escape this deal with the devil, he devises his exit strategy.
The intensity Hamilton generates here feels like a like a wailing siren growing steadily louder. Noir is all about characters attempting to find options for themselves where none exist.
The brilliance of this uncompromising novel lies in the way Hamilton, with the legerdemain of a master conjurer, turns despair to hope and back again, finally blending the two into their own unique nightmare world.
