Perfectly DeadChief Inspector Jacobson hates drug related cases. Not least because it means he has to work with the drug squad. But there's no alternative when a local dealer turns up burnt, battered and dead. Just another hopeless, pointless sink estate incident in the middle of a grey, Crowby February. But even so Dave Carter's torched body is the stuff of bad dreams. Death doesn't get any grimmer, Jacobson thinks. But that's because Jacobson, DS Kerr and Crowby

Solomons has created a gripping Romeo and Juliet for the 21st century'

bestselling author of INTO THE DARKEST CORNER

She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise

to both of us

An 18-year-old girl and Francis Herrol

But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who fears for their life

the de Witt family are struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives

a misfit on the sun-bleached

It's for the best

Fandorin is put on the case to find out what drove him to it

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an old and bitter enemy