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It’s 1992 and Detective Sean Duffy is almost out of the game, ready for retirement and a fresh start in Scotland. But when an IRA hitman is himself hit, he’s dragged back to Northern Ireland, and a case which threatens the fragile peace process. A novel with a serious message, it’s the way it’s balanced with humour and heart via Duffy and his team that holds the attention. Like Abir Mukherjee’s crime novels set in India, I closed the final page feeling that little more informed about UK history and politics. Eight books in, it’s one of the great crime series of recent times.
New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty continues the Edgar Award-winning Sean Duffy series with Hang on St. Christopher.
Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It's July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to "Shortbread Land". Duffy's a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It's an easy gig, if he can keep his head down.
But then a murder case falls into his lap while his protege is on holiday…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Laura has made her name as a serious writer of historical crime fiction, but her latest is a different animal. It’s still set in the Georgian period she so vividly evokes, but this is a playful and immersive novel with a wicked sense of humour bubbling just under the surface. From Hannah, a strong but repressed woman, though to powerful men like Henry Fielding with the law on their side, it’s down to the reader to unravel everyone’s hidden motives, as the pursuit of a financial legacy threatens to drag everyone down into London’s murky sewers. A book I didn’t want to end.
'Astonishing. A rare and wonderful story' - Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colours of the Dark
'Fiendishly clever and completely gripping' - Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things
'Laura Shepherd-Robinson takes delight in pulling the rug out from under her readers' feet . . . in this cleverly structured and consistently enjoyable novel' - The Times
London, 1749.
Hannah Cole's world shatters with her husband's brutal murder. Her confectionery shop, the Punchbowl and Pineapple, teeters on the brink of ruin.
Just as she uncovers a hidden fortune - money her…
