by Steve Mosby
Pub: Orion
available now.
I started Black Flowers with high expectations. I rely on Mosby to provide an excellent story with full, complex characters and heaps of tension, horror and death.
He does not disappoint. I tore through Black Flowers, needing to know how it all ended and where the various threads of mystery lead. I was kept tense and guessing as various points of view gradually brought the story together.
Mosby doesn't write typical characters, or typical plots so there is genuine uncertainty over the ending and no comforting sense of predictability to his characters behaviour. I was held anxious and rapt beginning to end and if real life hadn't forced itself in on me I would have happily devoured it in one sitting.
The story, characters and writing all deliver a dark crime novel, but the really brilliant thing was the interweaving of various levels of fiction and reality, how they blended for the characters in both directions. It was deftly done, very effective and really makes this novel stand out. Mosby does not get the shelf space he deserves. More please Steve.
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