Turning Blue - Softcover

Myers, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911356003 ISBN 13: 9781911356004

Publisher: Moth Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Nothing stays hidden forever.

In the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl, Melanie Muncy, is missing.

The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches its best man to investigate. DI Jim Brindle may be obsessive, taciturn and solitary, but nobody on the force is more relentless in pursuing justice. Local journalist Roddy Mace has sacrificed a high-flying career as a reporter in London to take up a role with the local newspaper. For him the Muncy case offers the chance of redemption.

Darker forces are at work than either man has realised. On a farm high above the hamlet, Steven Rutter, a destitute loner, harbours secrets that will shock even the hardened Brindle. Nobody knows the bleak moors and their hiding places better than him.

As Brindle and Mace begin to prise the secrets of the case from the tight-lipped locals, their investigation leads first to the pillars of the community and finally to a local celebrity who has his own hiding places, and his own dark tastes.

A tour de force of plotting and atmosphere, Turning Blue is a terrifying, gripping story of hidden lives, and hidden deaths.
"Turning Blue is cool, dark and hypnotic. As we ve come to expect from Myers, landscape and nature play an important role in the book, providing the rough-hewn canvas on which Myers paints yet another gripping, shadowy portrait of humanity, and in the process proves himself one of our most interesting and original writers."
Lee Bullman, Loud and Quiet
"Myers has his own style, he is an exciting writer of extraordinary talent with an ability to weave heart-breaking tales about marginalised communities and individuals with brutal, bleak and stomach-wrenching stories."
A Fiction Habit.
"I am continually excited and blown away by Myers awesome writing. I swallowed down this book with the thirst of the seriously dehydrated. I suggest you all get the drinks in as soon as you can because Myers is the landlord serving up intoxicating fiction."
A Fiction Habit.
"this compulsively readable work is driven by the same kind of grimly hypnotic thump that David Peace brought to his Red Riding Quartet."
The Crack
"The writing is masterful. The descriptive power throughout is akin to that of the best metaphysical poetry. ...to read Turning Blue is to be totally immersed, to be so engaged with the richness of the text that when reality calls and the book needs placing back on the table, you long to escape back to it. Myers creates a world that, for all its horror and there is horror here, make no mistake is so deep and complex that it stays with you. This is a writer who deserves a cult following."
Mike Stafford Nudge-Book
"Turning Blue does work as a proper all fashioned page turner, but Myers has created a new genre Dales Noir with echoes of a great like James Ellroy. But it is firmly rooted in a bleak Britain we ignore because we would rather leave the search for uncomfortable truths to outsiders like Brindle and Mace."
Paul Clarke, Louder than War

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Review

"A queasily compulsive evocation of a wild and brutal Yorkshire landscape, informed and haunted in equal measure by the shades of Jimmy Savile and his monstrous deeds and the East Riding's lost boy of crime fiction, Ted Lewis."
- Cathi Unsworth, author of Without the Moon and Weirdo

"Ben Myers is the master of English rural noir and with 'Turning Blue' he has created a whole new genre: folk crime. It is by turns gripping, ghastly and unputdownable. I'm already looking forward to the sequel."
- Paul Kingsnorth, author of The Wake and Beast

"Depraved and decadent... His prose is beautifully controlled and so graphic it's impossible not to picture the scenes he conjures up in striking detail. There is no hiding from the darkness because the writing is so damned good"'
- Val McDermid, The Guardianp<> 'A tour de force of stark horror writing.'
- The Skinny

'Undoubtedly one of the most impressive new voices in English fiction.'
- Narc magazine

'The writing is masterful... this is a writer who deserves a cult following.'
- Nudge

'Myers has created a new genre Dales Noir with echoes of a great like James Ellroy'
- Louder Than War

'Very serious, very disturbing, but hugely compulsive crime fiction.'
- Thrill Filter

'Myers has his own style, he is an exciting writer of extraordinary talent with an ability to weave heart-breaking tales about marginalised communities and individuals with brutal, bleak and stomach-wrenching stories into the evocative tapestry fo a landscape setting.'
- A Fiction Habit

'Within a matter of pages I was completely drawn in, unable to turn away. This is the first Benjamin Myers I've read, but it won't be the last.'
- The Book Bag

'A gripping thriller... fantastic scenary... highly recommended.'
--I Read Novels

About the Author

Benjamin Myers was born in Durham. His novel 'Beastings' (2014) won the Portico Prize For Literature and a Northern Writers' Award and was longlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Other works include Pig Iron (2012), which won the Gordon Burn Prize and Richard (2010), a bestseller chosen by the Sunday Times as one of its books of the year. His journalism, non-ficition and poetry have also been widely published. He lives in upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. www.benmyers.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Moth Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1911356003
• ISBN 13: 9781911356004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336