Shadow of the Serpent : An Inspector McLevy Mystery

from smik

A Financial Times review wrote 'McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endless fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you can feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town's steep cobbles and ...

from pierthinker

James McLevy is a maverick police Inspector patrolling one of the toughest areas of Edinburgh in the 1880s. His disdain for authority, his empathy with the criminal classes and his focused analytical mind place him in that awkward position for his station Lieutenant - a policeman you don't want b...

from Eyejaybee

"Inspector McLevy of the Detective" is a striking addition to the cast of Edinburgh crime fighters, and he shares a lot of the "thrawn" nature of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus. However, McLevy plies his investigative career in Victorian Edinburgh, a city of dark closes and alleys, particularly in ...

from john257hopper

This is a murder mystery set in mid and late Victorian Edinburgh and featuring the Queen, Disraeli and Gladstone and his family. While these would seem to provide the elements for an interesting read, I couldn't get on with it in practice. The fictional characters are uniformly unlikeable and the...