Born In A Burial Gown

  • Crime; Police Procedural

  • June 2015

    • UK & Commonwealth: Little, Brown

DI Avison Fluke 1 Book 1

Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless. Just as he thinks things can't get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a Cumbrian building site.

Shot once in the back of the head, it is a cold, calculated execution. When the post-mortem reveals she has gone to significant expense in disguising her appearance, Fluke knows this is no ordinary murder.

With the help of a psychotic ex-Para, a gangland leader and a woman more interested in maggots than people, Fluke must find out who she was and why she was murdered before he can even think about finding her killer...

  • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DEBUT DAGGER

Selected Praise

Great lead character, great setting, great writing. I am a fan.
— A.A. Dhand, author of City of Sinners
Deep-layered, fiendishly clever and absorbing.
— Matt Hilton, author of Dead Men's Dust

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