Barry Forshaw: HISTORICAL NOIR W9 [2018] paperback Condition:New Thomas Keneally pulls no punches

Thomas Keneally pulls no punches in this powerful novel about the Catholic Church's attempts to cover up cases of child abuse

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Barry Forshaw: HISTORICAL NOIR W9 [2018] paperback Condition:New Thomas Keneally pulls no punchesIt's one of the most successful and surprising of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and protodetectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. There is now an army of historical sleuths operating from the mean streets of Ancient Rome to the Cold War era of the 1950s. And this astonishingly varied offshoot of the crime genre, as well as keeping bookshop tills ringing, is winning a slew of awards, notably the prestigious CWA Historical