This compendium of «
crimes against the English language» highlights several felonies committed by Irish writer Amanda McKittrick Ros — often considered one of the worst published
novelists of all time — but right alongside hers are the missteps of Jane Austen, Jonathan Franzen and
other literary greats.
«[A] remarkably rich series... As it evolves, it becomes clear that Leon deserves her place not only with the finest international
crime writers (Michael Dibdin and Henning Mankell, for example) but also with literary
novelists who explore the agonies of the everyday (Margaret Drabble and Anne Tyler, among
others).»