![]() ![]() Is someone using the list as a template, or is there another link to Malcolm Kershaw? Can the killer be stopped before the list is completed? A closer examination of the list brings up other unsolved murders which probably have a connection to books on the list, particularly Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train and The Secret History by Donna Tartt. There's a bird connection in each of the names and this made her think about Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders. Her interest had been piqued after the murders of Robin Callahan (notorious news anchor), Jay Bradshaw and Ethan Byrd. She's interested in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: My Eight Perfect Murders. His interest in crime fiction comes back when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She was driving whilst inebriated, having just been to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affair. ![]() His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wife, Claire Mallory, died and he's never really got over it. The store specialises in crime novels, but Mal has given up reading crime. ![]() Malcolm Kershaw was the co-owner and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Boston. Beware though of spoilers for books you might not yet have read. ![]() Summary: Presented as a 'memoir', but with an unreliable narrator, it's a twisty tale with a nod to some of the giants of crime fiction. ![]()
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