A review by ericgaryanderson
The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

3.0

Great premise: Thomas Fool is an Information Man (a detective) in Hell, and he does his best to solve the ridiculous number of crimes that you'd expect would take place Down There. Unsworth does a brilliant job of creating a convincing Hell; I absolutely loved the settings, the hellscapes. However, this is his first novel, and it shows; at times I got the sense that he had a solid beginning and a solid ending but didn't quite work out how to fill in the middle. So in places the book can seem repetitive. Still, a fun read.