My Review of The Emmett Till Case is on the Crimespree Website!

 My Review of The Emmett Till Case is on the Crimespree Website!

 

My review of the fourth book in the French 50 States of Crime series, The Emmett Till Case, has just been published by Crimespree Magazine!

 

 

Here’s a snippet from my review!

 

The heart of the book comes from the question: what happens when the justice system fails?  Many French intellectuals and writers have gone off of Michel Foucault’s theories on punishment, following certain lines of thinking to raise questions about whether or not society benefits at all from identifying and incarcerating criminals.  Indeed, some prominent French crime novels have made a point of letting killers walk free, arguing that the dead cannot be brought back to life and that retribution is a futile waste of time.  The morality of such a perspective is understandably chafing to many differently-minded readers, but without confronting such arguments head-on, Pottier undermines such worldviews with every page of this book, showing how society is wounded when an act of violence brings no consequences. 

 

 

 

–Chris Chan

 

 

 

Chris Chan’s flash fiction collection 156 Homicides will be published on December 2^nd! His book Sherlock Poems retells the entire Sherlock Holmes Canon in verse.  He is also the author of the CWA Dagger Long Listed The Autistic Sleuth, written with the professional guidance of his mother Dr. Patricia Meyer Chan, and he has also written the Agatha and Anthony-nominated book on the Columbo killers, Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers! He is the author of the Funderburke and Kaiming novels Ghosting My Friend and She Ruined Our Lives and Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History, released by Level Best Books.  He is also the author of the comedic novels Sherlock’s Secretary and Nessie’s Nemesis, published by MX Publishing, as was his anthology Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes 1 & 2.  His Agatha-nominated book Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce Porter was published by Level Best Books.  His first non-fiction book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there).  It is also available in a Kindle edition.