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The Reluctant Investigator - Frank Lean

Description: ISBN 0749321806 / Author: Frank Lean / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Billy Fox has disposed of 14 women and gruesome evidence provides an ... more

The Reluctant Investigator - Frank Lean ... open-and-shut case. However, when David Cunane is employed to research Billy's true life story, he discovers that nothing is what it seems. Somebody is trying to beat Billy's total - so have the police got the wrong man?

Newest Review: ... realises that disturbing a slam dunk case like Billy Fox’s annoys a lot of people. The witnesses want to forget, the police ... more

... don’t want him to uncover the wrong sort of evidence, and the numerous other people with book publishing details are out to get him. With all this and an increasing amount of evidence suggesting that perhaps Fox is not the killer people say he is means that Cunane is deep in trouble. ‘The Reluctant Investigator’ has two major issues that makes it a bad book; the overly eccentric characters and the boring nature of the plot. As a fan of authors such as Colin Bateman and Carl Hiaasen, I have no issue with combining m...more

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The Reluctant Investigator - Frank Lean: The Reluctant Reader (911 words)
by - written on 23/10/07 (Very useful, 99 readings)
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There should always be a distinct line drawn between True Crime and Crime Fiction. One is based on the truth, whilst the other comes from the imagination of the author. Personally I find the idea of true crime novels to be slightly depressing, I don’t want to read an account of how Harold Shipman killed over 100 old woman, or how Rose and Fred West lured young women to their deaths. Fiction is a means of escape and although some books may be graphic in nature you at least know that these things are not real. This can not be said of books on real killers – if you read too many of them you many never leave your house. So what about a fiction book that tries to set ... Read the complete review