Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death review


I'm poking my head above ground briefly to share my San Antonio Current review of Charlie Huston's latest crime thriller The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.

Despite self-aware prose and excessive gore, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death barrels at a frenetic and exciting pace to a satisfying, inconclusive threads-akimbo conclusion on page 280. Unfortunately, L.A. resident Huston, in typical Hollywood fashion,felt compelled to tie up all of his dangling story lines and rambles on for another forty pages, sanitizing his otherwise deliciously dirty world.

Continued...

Time to return to my burrow. More geekiness to come...

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks Rick! Another book to add to my reading list. I'm currently trying to go through all of Harlan Coban's novels. Glad to see you're in the SA Current.

-Doug

January 29, 2009 12:52 PM  

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