EXTRACT from ‘The Awful Truth About the Herbert Quarry Affair’

‘I was beginning to regret choosing crime as the subject for my mold-breaking bestseller – the red tape was fierce.’ Today I am delighted to host an extract from The Awful Truth About the Herbert Quarry Affair, a book purportedly written by the main character in real time… How does that work? Denis Shaughnessy is […]

June 18, 2021 Blog Tours, Book chat, Crime, Fiction Read More →

REVIEW: ‘The Awful Truth about the Herbert Quarry Affair’ by Marco Ocram

I think Denis Shaughnessy just invented a new genre. This is crime fiction, but it’s also a wickedly funny send-up of crime novels. It’s a wonderfully self-aware text, in which a completely not self-aware author creates chaos by writing literally whatever comes into his head and hoping the reader will let him get away with […]

June 15, 2021 Blog Tours, Book Reviews, Crime, Fiction Read More →