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A review by yorkslass70
The Darkening Sky by Hugh Greene
4.0
Having recently read a number of crime novels set in the icy wastes of Scandinavia it was nice to get back to good old Blighty in the summertime., though this is by no means a cosy murder mystery.
I was hooked right from the start and enjoyed the mix of police procedural and the more mystical aspects of the story and thought the relationship between the two main characters, Dr Power and Superintendent Lynch was very well written.
There are some wonderfully descriptive passages and the story is well paced throughout with some nice humour thrown and I really enjoyed the quirky pen and ink illustrations which interspersed the text.
Dr Power's obvious love of food was for me reminiscent of the great Inspector Montalbano from the books by Andrea Camilleri and this story was in itself a wonderful apetizer for the rest of the series. I will defintely be looking foward to reading more by this author and to learning more about Superintendent Lynch and Dr Power as their working partnership develops.
I was hooked right from the start and enjoyed the mix of police procedural and the more mystical aspects of the story and thought the relationship between the two main characters, Dr Power and Superintendent Lynch was very well written.
There are some wonderfully descriptive passages and the story is well paced throughout with some nice humour thrown and I really enjoyed the quirky pen and ink illustrations which interspersed the text.
Dr Power's obvious love of food was for me reminiscent of the great Inspector Montalbano from the books by Andrea Camilleri and this story was in itself a wonderful apetizer for the rest of the series. I will defintely be looking foward to reading more by this author and to learning more about Superintendent Lynch and Dr Power as their working partnership develops.