In the middle of winter, a fire blazes through a dance studio.
Seventeen young dancers die. Their promising careers cut
...
Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat.
Poe is confused - he hunts
Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved & isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat.
Poe is confused
- he hunts serial killers & this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp
- but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.
As Poe & the socially awkward programmer Tilly Bradshaw delve deeper into the case, they are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions: despite being heavily vetted for a high-profile job, why does nothing in the victim's background check out? Why was a small ornament left at the murder scene
- & why did someone on the investigation team steal it? & what is the connection to a flawlessly executed bank heist three years earlier, a heist where nothing was taken...
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781472132000
• Author: M. W. Craven
• Publisher: Constable
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 448
• Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.6 cm