You can all see the blurb; a young newly wedded woman disappears from a gypsy community and our investigator gets called in to find out what happened to her. I don't think the story was exciting or interesting enough to be dragged out to 500 plus pages. A crime thriller/mystery novel needs to be ...
This was an unexpected read. I had picked up the book without reading the blurb.As it turns out, it tells the story of a private investigator who is hired to find out about the disappearance of a woman within the traveller community.One of the aspects that made the book quite entertaining is that...
Sometimes insightful remarks are made which are so reductive they have the power to diminish life even as they explain it. In 1939 Alfred Hitchcock explained in a lecture at Columbia University: "We have a name in the studio, and we call it the 'MacGuffin.' It is the mechanical element that usua...