LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR

AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘I'm so impressed I want to tell everyone… Police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvellous lightness of style and wit’ PHILIP PULLMAN

A TRAGIC DEATH. A TOWN FILLED WITH SECRETS.

A NAMELESS BODY

A young man is found hanging from a tree, with nothing to identify him.

NO LEADS TO FOLLOW

Was he driven to suicide, or was he silenced? Somebody knows, but they’re not saying.

WHO’S NEXT?

With potential witnesses too scared to talk to her, can DI Manon Bradshaw discover the truth before more innocent people die?