Product Details

• Published on: 2005-11-08
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

Already waiting for the next installment
If the highest praise you can give a book is that it leaves you wanting to read more, then White Stone Day deserves top accolades. It has just about everything you need in a novel: a gripping plot, a strong sense of time and place that nonetheless doesn't overwhelm the proceedings, a sure narrative drive, a diverse and well-drawn supporting cast of characters, and perhaps most important, an intriguing and entertaining protagonist. White Stone Day would have been a very good book with any other main character; with cynical, dissolute, at times hapless Edmund Whitty as the protagonist, it's a great book--perhaps even more satisfying than The Fiend in Human, to which this book is a sequel.

Fantastic
"The Fiend in Human", MacLachlan Gray's previous novel featuring Edmund Whitty was a stunning piece of work and I'm glad to say "White Stone Day" is also great!

The setting is Victorian London, that most fertile breeding ground for crime and detective novels, and MacLachlan Gray makes superb use of it. Edmund Whitty is still haunting its gaming dens and taverns, perpetually in debt and as often as not drunk (or hung over) when he is asked by an American detective to unmask a fraudulent psychic. Whitty takes the job, but soon finds himself confronting ghosts from his own past as well as real-live criminals that will stop at nothing.

In a nutshell: a great crime novel, with characters so colourful and alive they seem to leap of the page, and a chilling plot!