11 February 2019
Christobel Kent is among the English language's finest crime writers-and finest writers, as far as I'm concerned. In poetic, nuanced prose, she constructs powerful stories about misogyny and violence. In The Loving Husband, the protagonist learns that her husband is not the man he long seemed; in The Day She Disappeared, a woman in her twenties goes in search of her best friend when nobody else will take her disappearance seriously; and in What We Did, a survivor of years-long childhood abuse suddenly has to confront her abuser as an adult.