Criminality proves just the tonic for grief in Tyler Keevil’s impressive thriller Your Still Beating Heart. In its opening pages, the heroine, Eira, loses her husband Tod – aged thirty-one, she is widowed. Except, as she herself reflects, the words ‘loses’ and ‘widow’ are perhaps too vague, too gentle for what actually happened. Tod was stabbed […]
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