Ausgezeichnet: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, 2023. Nominiert: CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, 2023

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

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. The Puppet Show, the first book in his Cumbria-set Washington Poe series, was published by Little, Brown in 2018 and went on to win the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2019. It has now been translated into twenty-one languages. Black Summer, the second in the series, was longlisted for the 2020 Gold Dagger as was book three, The Curator. The fourth in the series, Dead Ground, was published this June and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

Website: mwcraven.com
Twitter: @MWCravenUK

Klappentext

This is going to be the longest week of Washington Poe's life...

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe can count on one hand the number of friends he has. And he'd still have a finger and thumb left. There's Tilly Bradshaw, of course. And he's known his beleaguered boss, Detective Inspector Stephanie Flynn for a good few years.

And then there's Estelle Doyle. Dark and dangerous and sexy as hell. It's true the caustic pathologist has never walked down the sunny side of the street, but has she gone too far this time? Shot twice in the head, her father's murder appears to be an open and shut case. Estelle has firearms discharge residue on her hands, and, in a house surrounded by fresh snow, hers are the only footprints. Since her arrest she's only said three words: 'Tell Washington Poe.'

Meanwhile, a poisoner called the Botanist is sending the nation's most reviled people poems and pressed flowers. Twisted and ingenious, he seems to be able to walk through walls and is able to kill with impunity.

**Poe hates locked room mysteries -- and now it appears he has two to solve...

'Breath taking' *My Weekly
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'Superior' The i

'Jaw dropping' Woman and Home

'Gloriously dark and twisted' Daily Express

'This series really is something special' Morning Star

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