Blood Lies Rare which is in turn violent

which is in turn violent and psychologically compelling

full of narrative irony

prey to the demons of his Derbyshire upbringing

Death and Mr Pickwick is one of them

political correctness and media opportunism

Blood Lies Rare which is in turn violentDido loads baby Ben and his toys into the van and drives down to rural Somerset to spend a couple of restful weeks with a cousin. Ally and her husband have moved there to keep an eye on his old parents who live in the local manor house where, four years ago, the family's youngest son shot and killed an intruder in the library. He is about to turn up after having served a term for manslaughter. And there are all sorts of chickens coming home to roost