So Say The Fallen, Neville - C +

                                             The author is from Belfast, and all of his previous half-a-dozen or so novels have dealt with the Troubles.  I've viewed him a master of taut tension, the explainer of the hate between the Catholics and Protestants, a storyteller of the violence and bitterness that is Northern Ireland. Everything about this title implies that that was where he was again headed. Here though, he attempts to write a 'Crime and Punishment' about a Protestant priest who, goaded by the affections of a beautiful woman, does in her bedridden husband, a survivor of a car crash that left him a double amputee. Father McKay tortures himself until he too meets a grisly end. The last third of the book focuses on the travails of the woman detective trying to sort it all out. All in all, I guess it's not that bad, just not what I was expecting