Review – The Vesuvius Club, Mark Gatiss
If you want a suavely written and slightly cheeky period crime novel then you might want to check this out. Set in Victorian England, Gatiss has created a world of secret agents operating under the radar.
Our main character is Lucifer Box (every name is a treat in this book), who confidently negotiates his way through a series of threats to discover a secret hiding in Italy.
It’s hard to discuss this further without giving anything away but I will say it is worth picking up for a read. It gets weird at the end so if you struggle to suspend belief with slightly more far-fetched stories it might lose you but for those who appreciate some oddness, this is a must.
Charlotte Wood is a feminist and writer of the macabre and sinister. She reads horror, fantasy, classic literature and historical fiction (with a preference for history from a woman’s perspective).