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inulro7. Inherit the Dead by various authors
This is a hard-boiled crime number written in twenty chapters by twenty different authors. I only became aware of it because John Connolly contributed a chapter.
A wealthy woman hires an ex-cop PI to track down her missing (but estranged) daughter, who nobody seems to be too worried about.
It's not good, per se, but it's interesting watching the writers trying to write the next guy (or gal) into a corner and to out-noir each other. It's successful in that if you look hard you can pick up the voices of the individual writers (mainly in my case Connolly because he's the one I know best, but there's also contributions from Mark Billingham and Charlaine Harris), but it hangs together as a novel surprisingly well.
This is a hard-boiled crime number written in twenty chapters by twenty different authors. I only became aware of it because John Connolly contributed a chapter.
A wealthy woman hires an ex-cop PI to track down her missing (but estranged) daughter, who nobody seems to be too worried about.
It's not good, per se, but it's interesting watching the writers trying to write the next guy (or gal) into a corner and to out-noir each other. It's successful in that if you look hard you can pick up the voices of the individual writers (mainly in my case Connolly because he's the one I know best, but there's also contributions from Mark Billingham and Charlaine Harris), but it hangs together as a novel surprisingly well.
