Book 2 in the Louie Knight series.

To the girls who came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry, Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught at the Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials. But both worlds collide when the Dean checks into the notorious bed and breakfast ghetto and mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin. Soon he is running for his life, lost in a dark labyrinth of druid speakeasies and toffee apple dens, where every spinning wheel tells the story of a broken heart, and where the Dean's own heart is hopelessly in thrall to a porn star known as Judy Juice.

Bought for OddballDave but sending out on loan to Starry-Starry along with book 3, The Unbearable Lightness of being in Aberystwyth, so it will be a surprise for him when it returns. I'm sure it will then be going into Dave's Permanent Collection.

Thanks very much Celticstar and OddballDave, just picked these up from the PO this morning. I loved Aberystwyth Mon Amour so I'm looking forward to reading this. Promise not to hold onto them for too long!

I'm afraid I didn't enjoy this one as much as Mon Amour. The plot seemed disjointed somehow and I think it suffered from too many references to both other films/books and to Mon Amour. However I did love the black humour and the way he seems to have captured something essentially Welsh in this surreal landscape. The quick trip to Lampeter made me laugh as I'm a graduate of SDUC or University of Wales, Lampeter as they now call it and I remember the pub well and the Archaeology students seemed spot on to me... LOL! There are flashes of brilliance - the secret gossip fights especially - and I'm in awe of his imagination, just wish it flowed a little better.

Thanks for letting me read it Celticstar and OddBallDave.

A surprise indeed. Moved towards the holiday book pile TBR at the end of the month.