After his wife's death, Alex Connor just wanted oblivion. Only his friend Sarah kept him going, but she's been murdered. And whilst the police have the killer, they don't have her body. The gruesome search for her drags Alex back into the land of the living - and the dead. Policeman Paul Kearney is tracking a killer who's abducting women and draining them of blood. He's drawn into a world of dark desires that people will go to great lengths to hide. Wound together by their search, if they're to save themselves and the people they love, Alex and Kearney must go to a place where normal rules don't apply - where people trade murder memorabilia, and a place where life is only the first thing you lose.
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Steve Mosby is the author of many novels. He won the 2012 CWA Dagger in the Library, and BLACK FLOWERS was shortlisted for the THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012. He lives in Leeds with his family. Find out more at: www.theleftroom.co.uk or follow him on Twitter @stevemosby (if you're not easily offended).
Alex Connor, who has lived abroad for three years, since his wife died, is propelled back home to England when he learns that a close friend has been murdered, and his own brother has confessed to the crime. Meanwhile, Paul Kearney, a homicide investigator, is working a series of murders in which women are abducted and drained of their blood. When it begins to look like these apparently unrelated crimes have a common denominator, the story gets a whole lot more complicated. Mosby piles on the questions until we begin to wonder whether he can possibly answer them all before the book screeches to a halt. He does but just barely. Not only does the author keep a lot of key information to himself until the last possible moment, he also reveals certain things to the reader before he lets his characters discover them. This puts the reader in the position of knowing more than either of the two lead characters, while still being utterly in the dark. British author Mosby is not well known on these shores, but this book might help to change that. --David Pitt
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