Title: River of Darkness
Author: Rennie Airth
Rating:
4 stars out of 5Publisher: Penguin
Copyright: 1999
Pages: 435
Keywords: mystery, historical
Reading period: 26–27 December, 2009
Inspector John Madden, like so many of his generation,
came back from the Great War a changed man.
When a particularly savage and senseless murder takes place,
he must persuade his superiors at Scotland Yard to adopt
some new and unwelcome practices, such as psychological profiling.
This well-done thriller is as much
about the aftermath of World War I
as it is a police procedural.