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Fri 08 Aug 2010Cracking it on the dark side
Alex Barclay is a writer of smart, taut thrillers, one of a reasonably rare breed of such that fit snugly into the genre as if tailor-made for it, writes TONY CLAYTON-LEA
A CITY-CENTRE Dublin hotel, Saturday morning, July 31st. A slim, attractive woman in a silver-blue top with strategically-placed zips, tight jeans and black, heeled boots sits down in a low sofa and starts to speak. She will spill only as many beans as she wants to, and will, occasionally, be as difficult to determine as the stain on a nearby rug.
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