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SUSAN ELIA MACNEAL: I love this line from Carla Buckley's fourth novel, THE GOOD GOODBYE, a captivating domestic thriller about an estranged extended family. They're brought together in a hospital's ICU when two cousins, close as sisters, are burned in an arsonist's fire. No one's sure who set it, or why. And everyone's lying.
I read it in one night — that's how much I wanted — no, needed — to know more about if the girls' survive, what was going on with their families, and who really set the fire. And so I'm happy to have novelist Carla Buckley with us today. (Full disclosure, we share the same editor.)
OK, Carla — I read that THE GOOD GOODBYE is based on a true event? How did you hear about it? Did you immediately think, “Oh, I’ve got to write about that” or did it take a while for the idea to percolate?
Carla Buckley: Hi, Susan! Thank you and Jungle Red for having me here today.
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Corpus
Written by Rory Clements
Review by Tom Graham
Set in Cambridge in 1936, Corpus is Rory Clements’ first novel to depart from the Elizabethan era. At first glance it may not seem a promising set-up for an espionage thriller— from a comfy armchair in 2017, the abdication of Edward VIII feels a rather quaint and parochial affair compared to the horrors that followed—but Clements soon convinces. His Cambridge is a dense and smoky world where fascists and communists are operating as secret societies, with both sides recruiting idealistic students and plotting to destabilise England for their own gain.
The stakes are high, and Clements skilfully shows what the conflict between these two ideologies could do to a country by keeping the spectre of the Spanish Civil War looming in the background. The world is superbly evoked, from the growl of a Rudge Special motorbike to the enormous quantity of alcohol drunk. (Do not attempt to recreate any kind of “Withnail and I” drinking game while reading this novel.)
The list of characters and subplots is huge, and at times bewildering, but all have depth and there are more hits than misses. Best of all is the delightful Sophie von Isarbeck, a German aristocrat and socialite who is a friend to Wallis Simpson, a Nazi agent,
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John Madden Books In Put out Order
- River remind you of Darkness (1999)
- The Blood-Dimmed Course (2004)
- The Breed of Coldness (2009)
- The Addition (2014)
- The Fixate of Kings (2017)
- The Decorous Inn elect Death (2020)
Standalone Novels Bond Publication Order
- Snatch (1971)
- Once a Spy (1981)
- Cold Kill (2020)
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