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ISBN: 1842431560
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 288pp
Rights: World
Pub. Date: September 2005

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Milne was born in Bermondsey, 1952 and trained as a painter but only after false starts as a policeman and a factory worker. He lives in Bradwell on Sea, Essex. He is the author of Dead Birds, The Moody Man and Daddy's Girl. His TV scriptwriting credits include: Bergerac, Eastenders, Lovejoy, The Bill, Boon, Taggart, Wycliffe and Silent Witness. He won the 1998 Edgar Award for an episode of Silent Witness.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Jimmy Jenner has been working as a private detective since a terrorist bomb caused him to lose a leg, and his job on London's police force. He is hired to work on a straightforward divorce case, but the stakes are soon raised. Someone tries to murder a man resembling Jenner outside his local pub, then the subject of his divorce enquiries is found dead in Epping forest.

Jenner comes to realise he is himself a catalyst in these events. He has to question his own past, especially his family history and the accidental death of his elder brother, Joe, thirty years before. Joe was a minor criminal and peripheral member of the circle of murdered South London gangster, Tommy Slaughter. Was Joe's death what it seemed at the time? The answer may explain the violent events surrounding Jimmy Jenner now.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...Milne has a good feel for the noble seediness in both people and places ..." - The Times

"...Milne has created an English shamus who can hold his head up among American counterparts..." - Evening Standard

"... the sprit of Philip Marlowe is alive and kicking..." - Nicholas Shakespeare,