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Psychosomatic by Anthony Neil Smith

daveversace's review

3.0

Violent screwball mayhem featuring a collection of increasingly murderous small-time crims and losers. It's like a Coen brothers film without enough laughs to leaven the grim desperation and downright terrible choices exercised by the uniformly unlikeable characters. This is normally the sort of thing I like in a crime thriller, and it is a well-paced, easy read but the lack of balancing humour takes all the fun out of it, and its too difficult to invest in the complete pack of jerks populating this book. Smith's later books are all better than this early, okay effort.