Chilling, truly horrifying psychological thriller from a highly talented new young British novelist: ‘A name to watch’ – Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
Local police thought George Picket was little more than a serial complainer. But as Chairman of the Chelmsford Allotment Society, the summer’s run-in with a wayward group of youths had begun to reach ever more serious heights. Then one late October evening a single match lights a trail of suburban death and destruction, whose dreadful hidden consequences reach far beyond the innocent allotment plots.
Freelance reporter Jack Latimer takes up Picket’s case, completely unaware of the millennial nightmare the Chairman’s tale will unearth. A severed head, a badly bungled drugs deal, a dead hangman’s grandson and the menace of juvenile crime are jsut some of the elements Jack will encounter in reporting a story which threatens not only to destroy his career – but his very life too.
For in uncovering the full horrors of the drop – Jack Latimer has a long way to fall.
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‘Death Duties is chilling and deviously plotted’
Val McDermid
‘Ingenious interesting debut’
Literary Review
‘A promising new young British voice’
Time Out
‘A superior piece of crime writing’
Literary Review (of Ploughing Potter’s Field)
Local police thought George Picket was little more than a serial complainer, but as Chairman of the Chelmsford Allotment Society, the summer's run-in with a wayward group of youths had begun to reach ever more serious heights. Then one late October evening a single match lights a trail of suburban death and destruction, whose dreadful hidden consequences reach far beyond the innocent allotment plots.
Freelance reporter Jack Latimer takes up Picket's case completely unaware of the millenial nightmare the Chairman's tale will unearth. A severed head, a badly bungled drugs deal, a dead hangman' grandson and the menace of juvenile crime are just some of the elements Jack will encounter in reporting a story which threatens to destroy not only his carer, but his very life, too.
'When the Ashes Burn' is a chilling, truly horrifying psychological thriller from a highly talented young British novelist.
Praise for Phil Lovesey's 'Ploughing Potter's Field'
'Phil Lovesey is among the most talented of the new wave of crime writers, distinguished by robust writing, a keen, brutal perception of modern existence and a penchant for shocking violence.'
MARCEL BERLINS, 'The Times'
'A superior piece of crime writing'
PHILIP OAKES, 'Literary Review'
'Death Duties'
'Phil Lovesey's 'Death Duties' is chilling and deviously plotted, an idiosyncratic marriage between the traditional marriage between the traditional English police procedural and psychological thriller. Laced with black humour ...it links past and present in a quirky tale that demonstrates a real storyteller's gift'
VAL MCDERMID, 'The Times'
'A dark tale of sordid crime in the Home Counties, it [death Duties] introduces a promising new, young British voice'
MAXIM JUKUBOWSKI, 'Time Out'
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