Robert Galbraith's Strike novels are some of the finest examples of detective fiction of our age. The series has sold well over
...Thomas Kitson, one-time metropolitan art critic, arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place & the last thing the commanding officers want is a newspaperman getting in the way, asking difficult questions. Then he is witness to an act of unbelievable treachery & betrayal &, as Sebastopol burns, Kitson flees to Engl&, trying to escape the atrocities he has seen. Desperate for normality, he takes up the only position on offer, becoming a 'street philosopher', reporting on the Manchester scene for the society pages. But, as Manchester prepares to welcome Queen Victoria on the eve of the great Art Treasures Exhibition, the past catches up with Kitson & he finds himself under threat from old friends & new enemies alike...