A review by trusselltales
Vine Street by Dominic Nolan

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

Vine Street is distinctive, dark, disturbing, dreamlike (or do I mean nightmarish?) and quite a dazzling highlight of the crime fiction offerings of 2021. The word visceral has been used a lot in reviews I've read, and justifiably so. This is noir at its finest, with evocative scenes of 1930s Soho, with multi-layered intense characterisation and a sweeping plot. It's very gritty, and not for the faint of heart, but it's compulsive.