Wolves of Memory
Bill James, . . Norton, $23.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-393-06188-8
Starting a new Harpur & Iles mystery these days is like having lunch with a couple of smart and sardonic friends who don't quite get along. Over drinks, Asst. Chief Constable Desmond Iles of an unnamed English city—a vain and fascinatingly immoral man who has been passed over but never fired because of a series of sexual misadventures—will toss out comments that show how aware he is of the irony. At the start of their latest outing (after 2005's
Reviewed on: 05/08/2006
Genre: Fiction