| Mike Ripley has twice won the CWA Last Laugh Dagger for best humorous crime novel. Now, with Double Take he has turned his humor to his first novel not featuring Fitzroy Angel. Here he moves "up west" big time, to London’s wild west frontier around Heathrow airport and with a new multi-cultural cast of characters all determined to make crime pay. Told from two viewpoints, the police and a gang of multi-racial crooks, the reader has an inkling that something is going on—how to rob something major from the airport and get away with it. Ripley keeps the plan from us as the police try to piece it together, until we see it all happen at the end, while at the same time deconstructing one of Agatha Christie’s most audacious plots. Double Take has a double dose of the Ripley hallmarks—lots of funny stuff and full of suspense—and includes as well the script for the novel. Previous Ripley novels include That Angel Look, Angel Confidential, and Angel Touch. |
