Ausgezeichnet: CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, 2022. Nominiert: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2022

Vorwort
A dark and twisted crime novel, this is the eagerly anticipated follow up to The Curator.

Autorentext

Multi-award-winning author M.W. Craven was born in Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle. He joined the army at sixteen, leaving ten years later to complete a social work degree. Seventeen years after taking up a probation officer role in Cumbria, at the rank of assistant chief officer, he became a full-time author. He is an instant Sunday Times bestseller and, for his Cumbria-set Washington Poe series, a recipient of the 2019 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, the 2022 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023. The series has now been translated into twenty-nine languages

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Klappentext

**Silence and secrets ... and a ceramic rat
**

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused - he hunts serial killers and this appears to be murder-by-pimp - but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.

As Poe and 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 - and why did someone on the investigation team steal it? And what is the connection to a flawlessly executed bank heist three years earlier, a heist where nothing was taken . . .

**Praise for M W Craven
**
'One of the most intriguing detective duos out there' Abir Mukherjee
'Dark, sharp and compelling' Peter James
'One of the most engaging teams in crime fiction' Daily Mail

Zusammenfassung
A dark and twisted crime novel, this is the eagerly anticipated follow up to The Curator.