This Week We're Reading ... The Lost Get-Back Boogie and The Midnight Choir

James Lee Burke's Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Lost Get-Back Boogie takes a bit of a kicking from Amazon's readers' reviews, but Crime Always Pays reckons it's one of his best of the non-Robicheaux novels ... Meanwhile, 'Cheer Up Weepy' Gene Kerrigan's latest, The Midnight Choir, is superior stuff to the normal police procedural according to a host of reviewers, not least of whom are the overworked Crime Always Pays staff (above, offering Weepy Gene the ultra-rare 'four-thumbs-aloft' treatment). Incidentally, if you fancy reviewing recent Irish crime fiction novels at the standard rate of one decapitated jelly-baby per paragraph, drop us a line in the comment box and we'll get back to you ...