I realize this is my third post about DI Jack Carrigan (from A Dark Redemption and Eleven Days, the first two Carrigan and Miller mysteries by Stav Sherez), and maybe this is a bit excessive, but I’m not apologizing. I find Carrigan to be the most intriguing character and the moodiest sleuth I’ve come across in quite some time. … [Read more...]
Backstory in Carrigan and Miller Series
Backstory as unfinished business in Eleven Days At the tail end of my last post on A Dark Redemption by Stav Sherez, I left you with a list, explaining how as I read the book, I’d made a point of noting recurring instances of backstory (references to DI Carrigan’s past). … [Read more...]
Carrigan and Miller: Series Debut
I knew I had to read A Dark Redemption by Stav Sherez the moment I read the first review mentioning that a previous stand-alone mystery by Sherez received raves from one of my favourite authors, James Sallis (Lew Griffin series, John Turner series, Drive, etc.) In a jacket blurb, Sallis lauds Sherez’s The Devil’s Advocate: … [Read more...]