A review by doulicia
City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate

4.0

Between English slang, street slang and cricket references, I only understood about two-thirds of the book. And still I liked it. The narrator was a stereotypical hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-tongued P.I. who was cut right from the noir mold. Except when he wasn't. Those moments gave him dimension and moved me to some empathy that took the book beyond straight entertainment.

I don't read enough mysteries to know if the plot was a good one or not. It kept me guessing.

This was a great surprise for a book I chose completely because of its cover (which rewards a close look).