Book description
'Unerringly sharp and pioneeringly original, it locks the reader in
from start to finish.' Andrew Barrow, Spectator Winter, 1906. It's Jim
Stringer's first day as an official railway detective, but he's not a
happy man. As the rain falls incessantly on the city's ancient
streets, the local paper carries a story highly unusual by York
standards: two brothers have been shot to death. Soon Jim enters the
orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villain - and discovers that the two
murders are barely the start of his plans . . . 'A cracking good
thriller.' Independent on Sunday 'Crime narratives dispatched with a
Dickensian relish . . . Delectable stuff.' Daily Express 'Has the
charm of Alexander McCall Smith's simple-is-good philosophising and
its addictive quality.' Metro
Andrew Martin, a former Spectator Young Writer of the Year, grew
up in Yorkshire. He has written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph,
the Independent on Sunday and Granta, among many other publications,
and his weekly column appears in the New Statesman.
