Black Summer

  • Crime; Police Procedural; Thriller

  • June 2019

    • China: Spring

    • Croatia: Znanje

    • ​Czech Republic: Dobrovsky

    • Denmark:​ Jentas

    • Estonia: Pegasus

    • ​France: L'Archipel

    • Germany: Droemer Knaur

    • Greece: Harlenic Hellas

    • Japan: Hayakawa

    • Lithuania: Leidykla

    • Netherlands: Luitingh Sijthoff

    • Portugal (exc. Brazil):​ 2020 Editora

    • Russia: AST

    • Slovakia: Ikar

    • South Korea: Wisdom Publishing

    • Spain:​ Roca Editoral

    • Sweden: Modernista

    • UK & Commonwealth: Constable & Robinson

Washington Poe Book 2

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.

Selected Praise

Dark, sharp and compelling.
— Peter James, author of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series
I cannot remember the last time I bing read a novel in 36 hours... truly mind-blowing.
— A.A. Dhand, author of the Harry Virdee series
Dark and twisted in all the right places. Poe is a great mix of compelling, complex & charismatic, and well on his way to becoming one of the standout characters in crime fiction.
— Robert Scragg, author of What Falls Between the Cracks

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