As a result of Kobo's recent rash of excellent discount voucher codes I've been able to venture into authors that had previously either escaped my attention, or I couldn't justify spending big on.
One such acquisition was Andrew Martin's
The Necropolis Railway
$2.99 and discountable (bookriot50 is still going great guns!)
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"A brilliant murder mystery set in Edwardian London about a railway line that runs only to a massive cemetery." Daily Mirror
When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. The men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him - and his predecessor has disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
Can Jim work out what is going on before he too is traveling on a one-way coffin ticket aboard the Necropolis Railway?
"Guaranteed to make the flesh creep and the skin crawl, a masterful novel about a mad, clanking, fog-bound world." Simon Winchester
"A murderous conspiracy of a plot graced with style, wit and the sharp, true taste of a time gone by ... So beautifully nuanced and so effortlessly pleasurable to read that you almost want to keep it a personal secret." Independent on Sunday
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Harris is what I term a Grade A writer, story teller and mystery writer. His writing style is polished, he doesn't labour the story down with inconsequential details, and he evokes the era and rail history about which he writes.
I originally saw Harris' two books on WWI, The Somme Stations (no. 7) and The Baghdad Railway (no. 8), and thought I'd buy book 1, Necropolis, to get the feel. Now I've decided to buy and read them all in order!!