Screwed

Screwed  happens to be the title of a book I just read by Eoin Colfer. You don't think I'd use bad language, do you? Colfer wrote the young adult series, Artemis Fowl. My kids enjoyed his books and we still have them. Screwed is his second novel for adults.

Colfer writes in the Walter Mosley tradition of detectives whom it seems everyone wants to kill. The language is coarse; most of the characters are beastly; the literary allusions rich. Colfer's characters are mostly former IRA types--that's Irish Republican Army, including the good guy, Dan McEvoy, whereas Mosely writes about crime in the Los Angeles Black community.

I love my public library. They always have the latest books, including the ones I want to read.