Nothing Important Happened Today: 2 (Detective Sergeant Pace) - Softcover

Carver, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912374838 ISBN 13: 9781912374830

Publisher: Orenda Books, 2019

Synopsis

When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything suggests that a cult is to blame. How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?
 
***Telegraph Book of the Year***
***Longlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award***
***Longlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020***
 
‘Heavy gusts of bedsit nihilism usher in this strange mystery … weirdly page-turning’ Sunday Times
 
‘Laying bare our 21st-century weaknesses and dilemmas, Carver has created a highly original state-of-the-nation novel’ Literary Review
 
‘Arguably the most original crime novel published this year’ Independent
 
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Nine suicides
One Cult
No leader

Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve never met. But at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicide note, and a page containing only four words: Nothing important happened today.

That is how they knew they had been chosen to become a part of the People Of Choice: A mysterious suicide cult whose members have no knowledge of one another.

Thirty-two people on that train witness the event. Two of them will be next. By the morning, People Of Choice are appearing around the globe; it becomes a movement. A social media page that has lain dormant for four years suddenly has thousands of followers. The police are under pressure to find a link between the cult members, to locate a leader that does not seem to exist.

How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?

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‘Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain. After this, he’ll have his own cult following’ Daily Express
 
‘At once fantastical and appallingly plausible … this mesmeric novel paints a thought-provoking if depressing picture of modern life’ Guardian
 
‘This book is most memorable for its unrepentant darkness…’ Telegraph
 
‘Unlike anything else you’ll read this year’ Heat
 
 ‘Utterly mesmerising…’ Crime Monthly

About this title

About the Author

Will Carver is the international bestselling author of the January David series. He spent his early years in Germany, but returned to the UK at age eleven, when his sporting career took off. He turned down a professional rugby contract to study theatre and television at King Alfred’s, Winchester, where he set up a successful theatre company. He currently runs his own fitness and nutrition company, and lives in Reading with his two children. Will’s latest title published by Orenda Books, The Beresford came out in July 2021. His previous title Hinton Hollow Death Trip was longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize, while Nothing Important Happened Today was longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Good Samaritans was book of the year in Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Express.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orenda Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912374838
• ISBN 13: 9781912374830
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276