Published by AuthorHouse, March 2011.
ISBN: 978-1-4520-9898-2
Although riddled with the crimes of murder, blackmail, theft,
deception, and almost any other crime you care to mention this is not your
usual crime fiction whodunit. It is more
a collection of short stories that expose the worst side of human nature in
that the characters in their daily lives exhibit, jealousy, lust, bigotry,
revenge, hatred, greed and intolerance. However, the fourteen chapters are linked by a bottle of a
fine Chilean Merlot, Casillero del Diablo, which translates to, The
Devil's Cellar, the title of the book.
In
the preface Detective Jack Harvey and Sgt Harry Cole attend the scene of the
killing of a man in Sussex Avenue.
The elderly man found by his house keeper sitting in his chair with his head
bashed in - the implement of death being
a bottle of red wine broken in two and lying beside the body. With some clear
finger-prints on the bottle, identification of the killer looks to be a good
bet.
However
despite a fast identification of finger-prints, all does not go smoothly for
the police. As the investigation proceeds the police trace the path of the wine
as it was passed from person to person weaving its way through the book,
becoming a witness to the life-changing events that occur to ordinary people
within each chapter, and although the wine is never opened, the souls of the
characters are laid bare, and all too often the devil is witness to their evil
deeds and on hand to reap their souls.
The book is filled with twists and turns of fate such as you could not
imagine. But not all are bad, just sometimes the Devil misses out, but moves
quickly onto his next victim.
It
is an unusual but compelling read.
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes
Shane Marco was
educated at Hackney Downs Grammar school
in East London and City
University, after which
he moved into accounting He has worked in radio broadcasting and acting, written modern operas and poetry. The
Devil’s Cellar is his first book
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