The thing that pleased me when I finished is noting on the inside back cover that this was the first in a series of books about this detective. The story is first person around an author who is to follow a difficult detective and write about his work on a murder case. It is very different from other crime stories. Towards the end I found myself thinking that all the clues had been there but I had missed them, just like the author in following Hawthorn around. It would have helped if I knew Hamlet better, but I am more familiar with the scottish play. I enjoyed it. My mark 9?
On Fantastic Fiction it shows that he is a prolific author of all sorts of books.
These are the Hawthorn books.
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