Red Riding Quartet Nineteen Seventy-Four: The Red Riding Quartet, Book One, Book 1, (Paperback)

from neiljohnford

Don't have much to say about this one apart from that I liked the way it was written but Christ I'm glad I was only a baby in the seventies. Was it really that grim? I came to this through the Channel 4 dramatisation - and I will read the rest of the series... but not yet. Too depressing to read ...

from downdb

Finishing this book, I was reminded of my thoughts as I left the theater following my first and only viewing of Darron Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream: "That was an excellent film, and I never want to see it again." 1974 is an incredibly well-written book about entirely terrible people doing enti...

from atia

An excellent, if depressing, read. Yorkshire, 1974. A young girl goes missing, and North of England Crime Correspondent Edward Dunford follows the case with growing interest. Soon he discovers that the girl's disappearance might be linked to the abduction of two other girls, but that, as it turns...

from jkdavies

I had watched the TV adaptation of this book when it came out, and been rather impressed. The book also did not disappoint, the cloying oppressive atmosphere coming through despite the terseness of the sentences. The ordinariness and expectation of crime and violence the most horrifying thing. Th...

from allthesedarnbooks

This book, the first in Peace's "Red Riding Hood Quartet," is an excellent, dark, and twisted noir novel. Set in northern England in 1974, it is an example of crime writing at its grittiest. This book is not for everyone; the world that it depicts is gruesome, filled with violence against childre...