Review: Holding by Graham Norton, 2016

Holding by Graham Norton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Holding by Graham Norton, 2016

A bumbling heavy-set investigator is assigned to solve a crime when a body turns up at a farm in the idyllic Irish village Duneen. Sergeant PJ Collins contends with Brid and Evelyn, former lovers of victim Tommy Burke, digging up long-buried secrets of the past.

A brisk read with a quick pace, the novel won't demand too much attention and focus and is well suited for an audiobook format. The audiobook is narrated brilliantly by Graham Norton himself, and the darkly comic whit in which the book is written screams "Graham Norton" if nothing else. Provincial but charming, Graham Norton's debut novel was fun.

Filming of the TV series adaptation began late 2021, directed by Kathy Burke.

I rate it 3 of 5 stars.

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