· Watching Madden and his colleagues trying to convince a Scotland Yard skeptic is part of the intrigue of River of Darkness. Watching Madden rise from his own dark state is part of the intrigue, too. The reader not only gets inside the head of the murderer, but gets inside Madden’s head as bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of River of Darkness. Wounded by the death of his wife and infant daughter from influenza, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector John Madden has physically survived two years of trench warfare during World War I, but the mental scars haunt both . 9 rows · · Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters before Brand: Penguin Publishing Group.
Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters before becoming a novelist. He is the author of two other John Madden mysteries, River of Darkness, a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and a Macavity Award for Best Mystery, and a New York Times Notable Book, and The Blood-Dimmed Tide. River of Darkness () by Rennie Airth From the author's page: In rural England, slowly emerging from the horrors of World War I, the peace of a small Surrey village is shattered by a murderous attack on a household that leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. Sent by Scotland Yard to investigate is Inspector John Madden, a grave and good man who bears the emotional. #;River Of Darkness by Rennie Airth is set just after the first world war, in The story opens with the discovery of the horrifying stabbing of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two of their staff. At first it looks like robbery, but Lucy Fletcher, the Colonels wife has her throat cut, and the robbery looks staged.
Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters before. River Of Darkness is a well researched novel which deals sensitively with what we now call PTSD and then called nightmares. The horrors of trench warfare and its aftermath obviously play a large part in any serious novel set in the earlies 20s and whilst the descriptions are graphic they are not gratuitous or sensationalist. River of Darkness by Rennie Airth is the first book of the John Madden mystery series set in post-WWI England. Scotland Yard Detective Inspector John Madden's wife and daughter perished in the pre-Great War flu epidemic, then he suffered years of trench warfare, before returning to police duty.
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