Mark Timlin is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. He is also a renowned book reviewer and literary commentator. His most recent work is REAP THE WHIRLWIND. In his early years he did various jobs including work as a member of the road crew for THE WHO, including working backstage at Woodstock in the 1960s on the lighting cranes
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Domestic noir, don’t we all love it? I can remember when it didn’t exist, but now it looms large on the bestseller list, and Samantha Dowling is one of the queens of the genre. I ain’t complaining. When these stories start with descriptions of a family, and all their traits and misdemeanours, I’m there.
This time we’re on a road trip down south, starting in Atlanta, Georgia and heading to Alamo, Nevada, deep in the desert, carrying Grandpa’s ashes in a wooden box with brass hinges. An exact replay of the trip that happened when the siblings were kids, and Grandpa was alive. Except then there were four, and now there are only three left. The instructions were all laid out in Grandpa’s will. No deviations from the route, no ending up in jail, no going home early. And then his estate would be split three ways. A real big estate. A fortune for each of the three. The trip should be the perfect time for the five brothers, sisters, brother-in-law and sister-in-law to bond. Don’t you believe it. And why mention jail? And, are they being followed, and why? And who is he who started it?
I couldn’t read this one fast enough, and every time I put it down, I couldn’t wait to pick it up again. There’s thrills and spills aplenty on this road trip from hell with the most dysfunctional family since the Addams’s. He Started It is a stone-bonker-smash, with more twists and turns than the knot in a hangman’s noose, and you can quote me on that.
