From Booklist
Here is an oddly constructed little novel offered by a hot and hip British publisher. There's little plot to speak of. The book simply looks over the shoulder of a small-time West London thief named Bobby Boy and the women and fellow hoodlums who share his grim little world. Pretty much all that occurs is eating, drinking, talking, and the permuted copulations of the principals. The dialogue, which makes up almost the entire book, is clipped and frequently recondite, a kind of British take on the styles of James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, and George V. Higgins. Considering these factors, Stitch is also an oddly engaging read. It produces in the reader an inchoate sense that such people do exist, that this is how they act, and that author Spencer knows them very well. The anomie is as thick as a London pea-soup fog, and that alone will surely please crime and noir fans.
Thomas Gaughan
