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The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin


2015
08.31

“I know this won a CWA new dagger award but I felt it tried too hard, falling between stories and failing all around.
There is a serial killer on the loose in New Orleans 1919, is he real or what? We also have intertwined with the story a young Louis Armstrong, disgraced ex cop/ex con, unpopular chief detective…
I couldn’t be bothered to finish the book 3/10

Score 3/10

Date read August 2015

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He Wants by Alison Moore


2015
08.13

“Not your regular second novel. Good though
Hard to describe and recommend.
An older man meets up with a tearaway old chum and things begin to liven up.
6/10

Score 6/10

Date read August 2015

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Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming


2015
08.03

“A biography of the Shakespearian actor.
Scottish lad breaks away from a working class upbringing and becomes a movie and stage actor. His dad beat him up, whoa is me. 5/10

Score 5/10

Date read August 2015

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