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A brutal and thrilling page-turner The Sun

Compelling Heat

The best pure mystery plot of the year Morning Star

Gleefully gory and witty, with a terrific sense of place Sunday Mirror
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After The Puppet Show, a new storm is coming . . .

Jared Keaton, chef to the stars. Charming. Charismatic. Psychopath . . . He s currently serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his daughter, Elizabeth. Her body was never found and Keaton was convicted largely on the testimony of Detective Sergeant Washington Poe.

So when a young woman staggers into a remote police station with irrefutable evidence that she is Elizabeth Keaton, Poe finds himself on the wrong end of an investigation, one that could cost him much more than his career.

Helped by the only person he trusts, the brilliant but socially awkward Tilly Bradshaw, Poe races to answer the only question that matters: how can someone be both dead and alive at the same time?

And then Elizabeth goes missing again – and all paths of investigation lead back to Poe.

The gripping new thriller in the Washington Poe series from M. W. Craven, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of 2019.

*Longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger 2020*

Praise for MIKE CRAVEN

Dark, sharp and compelling PETER JAMES

Fantastic MARTINA COLE

Britain s answer to Harry Bosch MATT HILTON

A powerful thriller from an explosive new talent DAVID MARK

Truly mind-blowing A. A. Dhand

A book thatshines with tension, wit and invention William Shaw

Washington Poe – a rising giant in detective fiction Alison Bruce

A twisty thriller with a killer plot Ed James

I loved this book! Jo Jakeman

One of the best British crime novels I ve read in a long time . . . Simply an unputdownable page-turner Nick Oldham

Grabs you from the very first page. A dark and brilliantly twisted crime thriller Colin Falconer

Dark and twisted in all the right places Robert Scragg

In Tilly and Poe, MW Craven has created a stand-out duo who are two of the most compelling characters in crime fiction in recent years Fiona Cummins

Dark, thrilling and unputdownable Victoria Selman