Our protagonist, Constable Twitten, is brilliant but irritating. Surprise! This time, Truss had me laughing right out of the gate.įor the uninitiated, this satirical series is set in Brighton, a coastal resort town in England, in the 1950s. It will be funny, I am sure, but probably not just yet. So as I open Psycho by the Sea, I have fortified myself to give Truss a minute or two to warm up.
She had proven to have a distinctive, rather odd fiction writing style, which began in a sort of corny, groaning, oh-my-God-is-this-the-best-you-can-do style, but then sneakily grew better and funnier until by the second half, I’d be laughing my butt off. I tell you all this so you’ll see why I thought I had this author figured out. I somehow missed the review copy for the third, Murder by Milk Bottle, which I discovered when I received the review copy for this fourth in the series after sulking for a bit, I took myself to Seattle Bibliocommons and checked it out so that I’d be up to date when I began reading this one. A decade later I began reviewing, and one of my first reviews was for Cat Out of Hell, and later, the first in the Constable Twitten series, A Shot in the Dark, followed by the second, The Man That Got Away. Truss first came on my radar with her monstrously successful nonfiction grammar primer, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.
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