(This review was first posted on the MysteryPeople blog.)
Come, Sweet Death! by Wolf Haas
Reviewed by Andrew H.
Wolf Haas has a voice to be reckoned with. His series of novels starring Detective Brenner is already wildly popular in his native Austria and in Germany, and it is only a matter of time until the United States catches Brenner fever.
What makes Come, Sweet Death! so irresistible is its unnamed narrator, who takes on a God-like quality. God has a sharp tongue and frequently interjects, surmises, and gives his own very funny opinion on the goings-on of the characters. The humor is largely dark; it is a crime novel after all. Brenner is an ex-cop who doesn’t ever want to go back to it, but finds himself again dragged into his detective work.
After taking a job as an ambulance driver in hopes of escape from the corruption of…
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