The Edgar Award for best crime novel: the best-written book on the shortlist

Read the opening of our pick below ^ Something of an Anti-Climax ^ A Hermit Wanders Down from the Hills

In today’s issue

— ‘It was the Jackson 5 after all who put Ray Carney back in the game following four years on the straight and narrow’: our pick of the best-written shortlisted book for the Edgar award for best crime novel, the winner of which will be announced on the 1st of May.

— ‘Only those severely damaged in the head by the series would claim it’s worse than ICBMs or that its reverberations may exceed those of Triumph of the Will’: Something of an Anti-Climax and A Hermit Wanders Down from the Hills, parts 4 and 5 of The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama’s Worst Fiasco. The entire series is available here, and a free copy of the fully illustrated .epub is available on request at auraist@substack.com. Thanks for the support Auraist readers have already shown this series.

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