I'm just over half way through Bad Men by John Connolly.
The premise is intriguing. A violent criminal and his gang are heading to Dutch Island off the coast of Maine to take back $900k his wife has absconded whilst he was in prison. Meanwhile the island has it's own secrets that are guarded by local sheriff, the giant Joe Dupree, secrets seeped in blood from when settlers first arrived on the island then known as Sanctuary.
The two plot strands are slowly weaving together and i mean slowly. There's so much back story to every character so far the actual plot moving forward could have been written in twenty pages. There are hints of the supernatural with an artist's paintings of the island going all M.R. James Mezzotint style.
I'm enjoying it but it's not gripping, not yet anyway.
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