My Dark Places Mike Carey the bestselling novelist draws on

the bestselling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine much-admired novels to tell the story he was

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an unexplained death and a detective with quite a lot to hide lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant new murder mystery

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My Dark Places Mike Carey the bestselling novelist draws onJames Ellroy's trademark is his language: it is sometimes caustically funny and always brazen. When he's hitting on all cylinders, as he is in My Dark Places, his style makes punchy rhythms out of short sentences using lingo such as "scoot" (dollar), "trim" (sex), and "brace" (to interrogate). But the premise for My Dark Places is what makes it especially compelling: Ellroy goes back to his own childhood to investigate the central mystery behind his