tobyone 's review for:

The Black House by Peter May

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A great story, if bleak, sad, and disturbing, with an excellent sense of place and well described characters. My only gripe was the length of the flashbacks (which are essential for the story) which for me disrupted the time line. A case which lasted only a few days seemed like it took a few weeks. This might have been exacerbated by my reading style which is in bed and rarely more than 50 pages at a time. I was also having to check back to recap mention of details which turned out later to be essential to the case: in one case I had to go back over 100 pages to find the reference.