Tangled Web UK Review May 2000
Walking with Ghosts by
John Baker
pbk out August 00
(Indigo)
at £5.99
I met John Baker at Dead On Deansgate and, making a habit of it, Tangled Web sent me one of his books to review. Handy that because John’s a top man and I said I’d read his books! And I wasn’t disappointed. This is very good indeed. British PI’s are few and far between and its good to see a cracking tale set in a sleazy imaginary version of York which is both convincing and well written. Our John has a good eye for detail and he paces this one well with a good peppering of the off beat and the nasty. Along with a good variety of characters and that sort of fairly effortless dialogue, the sum total is worth a few reviewers clichés: this is rightly a highly acclaimed series and John Barker deserves better recognition. The only downer in all this is that I’ll obviously have to go out and get the earlier books in the series.
(
Peter Walker
)
