John Lee's Reviews > The Mercy Chair

As coincidence has it , it is two years ago today that I finished reading the previous book in this series. I knew then that I would have to wait this long for the next.

A sign of a good writer perhaps because as soon as I started to read, I remembered the main characters.

The plot this time is definitely darker than before and the violence, that has always been a feature, has also been turned up a notch or two. Usually this would have been enough to mark a book down for me but somehow the author keeps it on the right side of acceptable - albeit only just.
In his acknowledgements Craven makes early mention of his agent and their work to get the light and dark into balance. I think that they got it just right to produce a book that I found an exciting page turner with twist after twist as the story unraveled.

May be what made the book so difficult to put down was the constant switching between the dark side and the humour of the banter between Poe and Tilly, her unguarded honesty and his acerbic observations.

I see that the next is due in 2025 so not as long to wait this time. Not that I will need any encouragement to read it but something at the end of the authors notes is intiguing.