Aberystwysth Mon Amour by Malcom Price (1991)
Read: April 2010
Another one started/finished in the Dahab break - holidays and bus rides are great for reading :)
Now the cover of this really reminds me of the books my dad has; pulp-y. It's intentional as the book is a pulp crime novel...it just happens to be set in Aberystwyth in the 1980's! Sounds dubious, I know, but it actually turns out to be very good.
The writing style is really mmy thing here. It's just so tongue-in-cheek and totally serious about the crime in question, being a detective etc which might be otherwise difficult when it invovles ice cream and kids! It's got the right number of twists and turns too. So easy to read, but not simple, just engrossing. Funny in many places and really funny in more.
We were lent this by JT and after I'd finished I did email dad to see if he'd heard of it. I think dad would approve as it's pulp but very tongue-in-cheek. It turns out that dad has actually got this (amybe I've subconsciously already seen it on the bookshelves) and knows that there are a few others in the series. He'll keep an eye out for them at car boots / jumbles for us. It's also be turned into a radio play too....I feel we're behind the times in Cairo.
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