Review: A Cosh In The Dark
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2012
David Barber is a devious man. Each of these well crafted stories comes at you like a professional boxer. There's the left jab set up that gets you moving one way, then the right cross, coming like a blackjack in the dark, that knocks your pins right out from under you. The stories range over a wide array of tropes. Faithful wives and star-crossed lovers, femmes fatales and not so fatales, cops and shrinks, salvation and comeuppance,gravediggers who would send Willy Shakespeare galloping back to Denmark and more than one dead man walking (one of them on the moon, maybe). As I said, Mr. Barber is a devious man. He's also one of the best story tellers out there. I think you'll love every one of these surprising tales. I know I did.