Murder As Fine Art by David Morrell

 

I listened to the unabridged audio version of Murder As Fine Art by David Morrell and narrated by Matthew Wolf. I had Murder As Fine Art by David Morrell on my reading wishlist for a long time. I finally listened to it last month in October 2024.

Murder As Fine Art by David Morrell is a work of historical fiction and the first novel in the Thomas De Quincy series. Wow, this novel was so much better than I expected it to be!! If you L-O-V-E historical fiction and mystery/thriller novels, then this is definitely for you! The writing is detailed and simply superb. I feel like David Morrell did a ton of research for Murder As Fine Art in terms of what life was like in London during the 1800s, along with researching the historical events in which the author writes about for this novel. I found the characters, the storyline and plot twists were engaging and at times felt like I was witnessing the details firsthand as the writing was so vivid.

Below is the publisher's summary for Murder As Fine Art by David Morrell from Amazon's website:

Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morriell's brilliant historical thriller.

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London 43 years earlier.

The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts". Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter, Emily, and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives.

In Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.

I am giving Murder As Fine Art by David Morrell a rating of 4 stars out of 5 stars.

Until my next post, happy reading!!