How the Dead Live How the Dead Live

This is the third novel in the Factory series..

This, the third novel in the Factory Series, see's Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife. How The Dead Live is a haunting, fantastical novel, with a hellish country house at its centre; a mystery with little interest in the mystery, a police procedural with almost no procedure. Instead, and as ever with Raymond, it's a brilliantly unsettling investigation into love and damnation. This is life seen from the very bottom of the bottle ... a fitting successor to classic noir writers such as Jim Thompson and David Goodis.