A review by abookishtype
The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan

3.0

Why is it that literary fiction authors are so tempted to dabble in the mystery genre? Is it because the protagonists, the detectives, are already keen observers of detail and nuance? Or because detectives are always prying the lids off of seemingly ordinary lives to see what lies beneath? Whatever it is, Neil Jordan’s The Drowned Detective is a curious mix of the two genres, with a dollop of the supernatural to further complicate things. Jonathan, an Englishman who finds missing people in an unnamed eastern European city, takes a case to find a young woman who has been missing for years as the city, his marriage, and possibly his grip on sanity grow increasingly unstable...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.