When the Ashes Burn (Signed first edition)

Lovesey, Phil

ISBN 10: 0002326809 / ISBN 13: 9780002326803

Published by Collins Crime, 2000

About this Item

First edition, VG++ in nr fine unclipped dw. Signed and dated, upon publication, by author, on title page. No other inscriptions. A few marks to fore-edge of text block. Pages a little tanned. Minimal shelf-wear. S1. Seller Inventory # 0019d

Bibliographic Details

Title: When the Ashes Burn (Signed first edition)

Publisher: Collins Crime

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Born in Essex in 1963, and the son of award-winning crime writer Peter Lovesey, Phil Lovesey took a foundation course in art, leading to a degree in film and TV. He worked as a copywriter in London and turned to ‘proper’ writing in 1994 with a series of short stories. He has lived in Chelmsford for nine years and has been married for ten. He and his wife have three young children.