It’s been a while since I read anything by Roger Ormerod, and that’s in part because I can’t quite decide how I feel about his work. Yes, he puts forwards some intriguing ideas and has resolved a few impossibilities very neatly, but at the same time there’s no real detection and the books always seem to sag heavily in the middle…so can the much-recommended When the Old Man Died (1991) reverse those impressions?
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I’m doing Roger Ormerod a slight disservice here, by lumping him into this tranche of Mining Mount TBR. See, this series is an initiative by which I get to finally scrape books off my TBR that have been clinging there for arguably too long, and Ormerod has been so entertaining thus far that I was always going to read more by him. So wherefore his involvement here?
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Having enjoyed-if-not-loved my first encounter with Roger Ormerod’s work, Time to Kill (1974), he’s hovered on the fringes of my awareness as someone I should get back to. So a timely recommendation for The Weight of Evidence (1978) sees us pick up again with David Mallin
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TomCat has been singing the praises of Roger Ormerod for a while now, and, sure, TomCat has questionable taste some of the time, but let’s see if Ormerod warrants the praise, eh? And so, Time to Kill (1974), the first novel to feature Birmingham-based Detective Sergeant David Mallin.
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The Invisible Event 