Böcker av Lloyd Rees

There's a killer on the Loose on the streets of Swansea. And he is leaving clues. Detective Inspector Gus Reid and his tema have a gruesome murder on their hands but no suspects and no obvious motive. All they have to go on is a series of literary quotations that appear like graffiti on walls throughout the city. Can Gus's daughter, an expert in Renaisance literature, help solve the crime? Or will she become the next victim?The Killer believes he is much cleverer than the 'police detectives'. But is he too clever for his own good?

Luke Mondegreen wants to be a writer.He also wants to go on an exciting journey. He wants to avoid the cliches of thriller novels in his writing but he wants to experience those cliches in real life. (Think guns, girls, danger, exotic locations). But Luke suffers from a condition where he confuses friends as enemies and he also has a tendency to mishear or misunderstand both song lyrics and ordinary speech.

In the green room of history silent (or silenced) characters rehearse their parts for their big chance on stage - Crusoe, Lizzie Siddall, Connie Chatterley, and the indefatigable Trabb's Boy among them. But what do they have to say?The interlinked stories span history and genre and are littered with fascinating literary references, but they all show us people who are disfigured or silenced in some way. Often the reasons for that disfigurement are unfathomable. Nevertheless, these stories contain a good deal of humour and are beautifully written.One cannot fail to enjoy the rollercoaster ride but also you realise that you are dealing with an alternative set of ideas about narrative, history, truth and action, as well as ideas about personal loss, solitude and futility. Despite this panoply of intellectual questions, the author has not forgotten to tell fascinating stories that link together subtly and linger in the mind like dreams.