Shadow Voices: 300 Years of Irish Genre Fiction: A History in Stories

As a work of scholarship, Shadow Voices . . . assembled by crime-writing superstar John Connolly – is impeccable. As an act of artistic curation, it's comprehensive to the point of monumental. As a reading experience, pure and simple, it's terrific fun . . . [the biographies] are a fascinating history of Irish life and culture; as accompaniment to the stories, they're icing on the cake . . . full of fabulous stories . . . a treasure-trove, a literary odyssey – and a magnificent achievement by Connolly. He has done the state, and Irish writing, one hell of a service