The Dying Game [Paperback]

`[Of Catherine's most recent book, Face Value]: This book has the authority that comes from a writer who knows what she's talking about. It's interesting, exciting and may provide a warning for the naive.' TES

`An intelligent murder mystery with a realistic sense of how exploitative the fashion industry can be... This is a book about friendship, falling in love, corrupt old men who mistreat young girls and, memorably, London: it is full of detail of real places - street markets, trendy watering holes, gangland haunts, Thameside beaches and arts venues' Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week

`A compelling story of the glamour and dangers of the fast paced world of the fashion scene' Carousel magazine

When Shehana finds Vlora, stabbed and dying, on her rough London estate, she stops to try to help her. In so doing, she enters a world completely foreign to her own. Vlora had come to England illegally with her brother to work, and ended up a prostitute. Now Shehana must find Vlora's brother and, with him, try to track down the killer. Shehana can't tell anyone what's going on: not her strict parents who want her to work hard at school and marry a man of their choosing; not her best friend, who would never understand; and certainly not her boyfriend. She hasn't even been able to tell him of her secret dream of going away to university. It seems that Vlora's brother may be the only one she can talk to. But can she trust him, and what exactly does he know about his sister's life, and her death?

Other books by Catherine Johnson include: In Black and White, Hero, Stella and Face Value.