Jon Nixon reviewed Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Review of 'Postman Always Rings Twice' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
A quick read but a great one. It was written nearly a century ago but rattles along like a modern thriller. The dialogue is terrific and the prose is wonderfully bare and straightforward. It’s a noir tale of sex, murder, betrayal, love, redemption, tragedy and justice. The main characters are thoroughly weak and immoral but I ended up rooting for them. <spoiler>They come tantalisingly close to a happy ending before it is torn away from them.</spoiler>