If you’ve ever read a Nicola Barker novel you more or less know what to expect, which is to mostly not know what to expect. Her books have a kind of wildness to them, and especially in voice. They’re also usually very funny. This book is all of those things. The book begins with a long rant from a police inspector handing off a mystery to another detective. In the rant, among other things, we learn that in the small town of Burley Cross (BC) […]