The Iron Tongue of Midnight: Baroque Mystery Review

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The Iron Tongue of Midnight: Baroque Mystery Review
One of the more bizarre murder instruments plays a role in three murders in the fourth novel in the Baroque Mystery series--a grandfather clock. In two of them, the pendulum bashes in the skull of the victim, while the hour hand is used to penetrate the throat of the third. It all takes place at a villa during the year1740 where Tito Amato and a group of singers are invited to rehearse a new opera.
Accompanied by his brother-in-law and sidekick in solving mysteries, Gussie Rumbolt, who is asked to paint scenes of the estate, Tito arrives, expecting a pleasant stay. Soon, however, the first victim is discovered with the clock indicating it stopped at midnight. And each time a body is discovered, the clock indicates midnight.
Having not read the preceding three novels in the series, a comparison can't be offered. But judging from this effort, it can be presumed by the plotting, dialogue and writing, that the novels are all of high quality. After a slow start, this reader became engrossed in the story and was pleasantly surprised. A good read, and recommended.
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Altmann's Tongue Review

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Altmann's Tongue ReviewWhile it doesn't seem to me to hang together perfectly as a collection, Altmann's Tongue is an amazing amalgamation of shorts and short shorts. It contains some of Evenson's very best stories, especially the title short short, which turns a sudden double-homicide into a reflection on mortal power, who gets the authority to wield it, and what happens when we begin to speak the very language of those whose violent means we oppose. For these reasons, and as its title suggests, it is useful key to many of the other stories.
Evenson's written style is remarkable, tightly bunched words and curt but beautifully suggestive sentences that make the prose at once alienating and very friendly.
Many of these pieces ground themselves explicitly or implicitly in attempts to understand or articulate specific historical tragedies such as the Holocaust. They last long enough to open disturbing possibilities, then recede quickly and leave the reader to ponder the pieces. No heroes, no solutions, nothing but the problems and the problems of communicating those problems. In this, stories like "Altmann's Tongue," "Munich Window: A Persecution," "Killing Cats," and others come much closer to the reality of the Holocaust and our need to remember it than dismissively heroic tales like Spielberg's "Schindler's List" can ever hope to do.Altmann's Tongue Overview

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A Stolen Tongue Review

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A Stolen Tongue ReviewIf you think "A Stolen Tongue" is going to dish up some musty old history of the Middle Ages, with chanting monks, swooning princesses and gallant young men on prancing steeds, you've got it all wrong. The main character, Felix Fabri, starts out by overseeing a group of galley slaves who fish a bloated, drowned German guy out of a harbor and parade him through the streets of town to his burial site. Later on, he helps a cohort slice open another dead guy and pull out his intestines. And all through this book there is plenty of vomit, rotten things, people burned alive, human waste, worm-infested water, decaying bodies, hacked-off limbs, pus-filled wounds -- and there's Fabri's beloved Saint Katherine, whose decapitated body shoots out milk instead of blood. Oh, and Fabri carries a dried human tongue around in a pouch that he wears around his neck. Not that I choose books by their gore-index mind you. I simply say all this to drive home the point that the events Holman describes are vividly corporeal. The reader is drawn close to the action and really sees, hears, smells (usually gross smells, by the way), tastes (also often nasty) and touches the things the characters encounter. I love to read about life in other eras, and this book, along with being a great read, put me right into the center of the action. And lo and behold if I didn't learn more than a few interesting facts about medieval life, too!A Stolen Tongue Overview

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