In Dickens's shadow

Writing in Crime Reads, novelist Simon Toyne graciously acknowledges his -- and every writer's -- debt to Dickens: "Just as the bones of Dickens’ London are still visible beneath the flesh of the modern city as you walk through Chancery, or down Fleet Street, or through Covent Garden, or any of the stone lined lanes of the old city, so the shadow of Dickens falls across the work of any writer who dares to tread where he once trod." Read more here.