Review
“A veritable Stanley Kubrik of the world of fiction . . . Edric makes it impossible for the crime novel to be considered the country cousin of serious literature any longer.’
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The Times“Highly accomplished . . . Fans can look forward to his usual sharply realised characters operating in a tense, pressured environment.”
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Independent Praise for Peacetime:“If other novels deserve this year's Booker Prize more than Peacetime then they must be very remarkable indeed.”
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Spectator
Product Description
The third stunning literary crime novel in the Song Cycle trilogy, from the acclaimed author of Booker-longlisted
Peacetime, and
The Book of the Heathen.
Hull private investigator Leo Rivers finds himself in a battle to keep tabloid sensationalism out of his quest for the truth behind the savage murder of a young prostitute. Investigating one death in a sequence of similar killings, Rivers is brought into conflict with an ambitious chief-of-police set on as much personal gain as possible from the search for Hull’s first modern serial killer. Set against a backdrop of the Humber river and the gradual destruction of the fishing industry, Rivers is drawn into a world of exploitation, ambition, vanity and violence in this final volume in a trilogy of outstanding contemporary noir.
