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Joan's Picks: Cemetery Road and Identity Crisis

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Sun, 7 Apr 2019, 1:00PM

Joan's Picks: Cemetery Road and Identity Crisis

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 7 Apr 2019, 1:00PM

Cemetery Road by Greg Iles: Wonderful southern American writer who does Mississippi angst better than anyone I know. Over the last few years he’s done an amazing trilogy, which started with a book called Natchez Burning – but this one is a standalone and can be read all by itself.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604810-cemetery-road?from_search=true

Identity Crisis by Ben Elton: He’s a writer who worked on shows like Blackadder and The Young Ones so has great pedigree – and latterly written a number of books in addition to the screen writing. This one is very funny, and very black humour. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn’t ‘get’ a single thing about anything anymore. Meanwhile, each day another public figure confesses to having ‘misspoken’ and prostrates themselves before the judgement of Twitter. Begging for forgiveness, assuring the public “that is not who I am”. But if nobody is who they are anymore - then who the f**k are we?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43556477-identity-crisis?from_search=true

 

 

 

 

 

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