Why You'll Love This
Ishmael Jones returns to the exact spot where he crash-landed in 1963 — and the town has been waiting for him.
- Great if you want: cozy mystery atmosphere wrapped around a genuinely strange mythology
- The experience: brisk and unpretentious — reads fast, with a satisfying genre rhythm
- The writing: Green keeps prose lean and pulpy, letting plot and character do the work
- Skip if: you're new to the series — payoff depends on prior investment in Ishmael
About This Book
Ishmael Jones has always lived with gaps—decades of missing time, a past that doesn't quite fit any human frame, and questions that no amount of careful investigation has ever fully answered. In Buried Memories, he returns to Norton Hedley, the small English town where it all began in 1963, hoping finally to unearth some truth about who—and what—he really is. But the town has secrets of its own, a brutal murder complicates everything, and the past, it turns out, has no interest in staying buried. Simon R. Green balances Ishmael's deeply personal quest against a tightening mystery that keeps the stakes feeling immediate and real.
What makes this tenth entry in the series worth reading is how Green uses Ishmael's alien outsider perspective to quietly illuminate very human fears—about identity, memory, and belonging. The prose is clean and propulsive, the banter between Ishmael and Penny grounding even the stranger elements in genuine warmth. Green never lets the mythology overwhelm the mystery, and readers who've followed Ishmael from the beginning will find this installment among the most emotionally resonant chapters yet in a long, satisfying run.
