Pool of Darkness

<p class=ql-align-center>By writing about Raymond Chandler Tom Sigafoos has been able to get uncannily close to him to begin to understand this person more fully and to introduce him to the world in a way that he hasn't been presented before...</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center><em></em>It's a book where playfulness setting and intriguing conversation are doled out in even measure. The prose is lush the humour tickles...</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>They say that word of mouth is the most effective way to get a book read and loved: readers urging other readers to invest time in a book because they feel that that book is worth it...</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>I hope that this novel gets all the notice it deserves. It's an informed witty elegantly written book with a lively energy in its pages<em>.</em> It's a celebration of all that's good and exciting about bio-fiction about the act of illuminating real people and lived lives; it's an honouring of Chandler as person as husband and as writer...</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Comhghairdeas ó chroí </em>congratulations Tom - may your ink never run dry.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>- <strong>Nuala O'Connor</strong> author of <em>Nora</em> and <em>Seaborne</em> launching <em>Pool of Darkness</em> at the 2024 Allingham Festival</p>