#392: A Fight to the Finnish – Promise and Delivery in Cruel is the Night (2013) by Karo Hämäläinen [trans. Owen Witesman 2017]

Cruel is the Night

We GAD bloggers are a tight-knit bunch.  Cut one of us, does another not bleed?  Take aim at Kate’s praise of John Rhode, will Puzzle Doctor not leap in front of the bullet?  And when the most adventurous among us — I refer, of course to Grand Viscount Bradley Friedman, LLC — ventures of into hitherto unexamined climes, do we not follow, fearful of what hackneyed plot elements may be reheated and served up to his delicate palate as fresh fare?

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