Never Love a Gambler is a showcase for the exceptional talents of Keith Ridgway. The Times (London) praised his stories as flawlessly structured yarns told in lovingly crafted prose. Ridgway s characters negotiate their way through love, madness, lust, anger, religious obsession, crime, and absence [...]

Hawthorn and Child are mid-ranking detectives tasked with finding significance in the scattered facts. They appear and disappear in the fragments of this book along with a ghost car, a crime boss, a pick-pocket, a dead racing driver and a pack of wolves. The mysteries are everywhere, but the biggest[...]