The Yard Alex Grecian Review

This deliciously trashy first novel by alex grecian walks the genre back to the era of jack the ripper with its.

The yard alex grecian review.

I have just finished reading a book called the yard by alex grecian. An utterly gripping tale perfectly evokes victorian london and brings you right back to the depraved and traumatic days of jack the ripper. S lick and sick is how fictional serial killers generally come these days but not in debut novelist alex grecian s historical thriller the yard where the murderer stumbles from killing to. Newly promoted detective walter day is given the responsibility of finding the murderer of a fellow detective who has been gruesomely stuffed into a trunk.

Reviews from the american library assoc. And i mean that in the best possible way lisa lutz author of the spellman files. Review by barbara clark june 11 2012 one of the lasting attractions of alex grecian s debut historical crime novel the yard is the fascinating way it lets readers in on the dramatic differences and particulars of another era without seeming ponderous or lecture y. Read it only for the hilarity of the wrongness of half his descriptions and his totally tin ear for period dialogue.

It s set in london in 1889 and is a novel about the early days of the murder squad. The writing style of alex grecian literally transports you back to those victorian days of england but not into the lives of the upper crust but into the lives of the london working class and the poor. Alex grecian has given us a solid bit of insight into the early days of scotland yard and the development of police work as we know it today. Grecian has a fine flexible curious voice and the yard looks as if it could be the start of a promising series.

Grecian imaginatively imparts a contemporary sensibility to the legendary tale and illustrator rossmo s tone is decidedly different from the whimsy of picture book versions booklist online. I can tell you that for any women reading this book it may make you a bit squeamish at times and is not for the faint hearted. Indeed the enterprising blackleg on his own could profitably drive a sequel and.