Niagra Falls, the Canadian side. It's a quiet sleepy town most of the time but now there's a new Inspector, fresh from the unpleasantness in Ireland and there's a convention of florists (or are they really florists) and there's a woman who's gone over the Falls and lived to tell about it. But, mostly, like any Colin Bateman novel, you just need to read it because describing you just can't explain it. He's a master. ( )

This book started off promising, funny edgy but rapidly deteriorated and by page 90 I was struggling to get through it. Overall it was a painful ordeal to get through it. ( )

Quirky, comical, with a heavy dose of satire lending gravity to serious issues. Bateman's characters are just over-the-top enough to be normal. ( )