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AUSTRALIA'S Kerry Greenwood has perfected the unlikely art of the feel-good detective thriller.
While Ruth Rendell leaves you feeling that the world is entirely populated by the twisted and their dupes, and each Henning Mankell or Ian Rankin gives the impression that justice has only just been snatched, once again, from a steadily overwhelming tide of life- denying wickedness, Greenwood insists that good friends, good food and a practical concern for the less fortunate will override all the slings and arrows that fate can throw at a person.
It's not that Greenwood's characters are unaware of...