Felix Castor is a hero in the Philip Marlowe sense; a loner who lives by his own complex but honest moral code. And while the novel deals with supernatural events it is essentially a detective novel as Castor unravels the difficult case at the Bonnington Archive. It is a brilliant pace-turning read that sucks you into the story as convincingly as Felix gets sucked into the case. Like The Heart Shaped Box, the true horror is from the ghosts but from the humans and the evil that is done by them - the description of what happens to the young girls in the story will stay with me for a long time.
"When I asked Dobson for the money he owed me for the performance, he punched me in the mouth. I took that in my stride: no teeth loosened, only a symbolic amount of bloodshed. I probably had that coming. He went for the camera next, thought, and I went for it too: me and that Brownie go backa long way, and I didn't want to have to go looking for another machine with such sympathetic vibes."
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