Book review: Blue is the Night
“Dark blue, very sharp,” is the description of the eyes of Thomas Cutbush, a suspect for Jack the Ripper killings, on his admission to Broadmoor Hospital in 1891.
McNamee’s ‘Blue’ trilogy — The Blue Tango was published in 2001, and Orchid Blue in 2010 — is distinctively noir, but shaded by nuance, and with more depth and breadth than conventional noir — more dark blue than plain black, and very sharp indeed.
