Grotesque suspects

06 March 2025, The Tablet

How does this productive duo – Nicci Gerrard and Sean French – manage to write these books? The seamless paragraphs betray no dual authorship.

In Oskar Jensen’s Helle’s Hound (Viper, £16.99; Tablet price £15.29), art historian Dame Charlotte Lazerton wants, after death, to be fed to the London Zoo tigers: they’re an endangered species, so she’ll feel she’s doing her bit.

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