Fair Play

An interesting book that examines how we deal with grief and how we seek answers to the inexplicable. Sometimes things just happen, and no matter how much we look for patterns or motives, how much we try to impose order according to arbitrary rules, they can't be found. The crime genre is an obvious candidate for this sort of structure seeking, and Hegarty largely pulls it off. If I sound a little under enthused, it's because this was literally the
second book in a row I read that uses the scaffolding of cosy crime to interrogate something else, and so it wasn't as fresh for me as it might have been. It's a good one, though.