The Doll Princess

Benn, Tom

ISBN 10: 0224093509 / ISBN 13: 9780224093507

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2012

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0224093509 1st edition hardcover in fine condition in fine dust jacket - 1st Bane novel, fixer, loanshark and legman - set in UK - new, unread copy. Seller Inventory # MH4254

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Doll Princess

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The arrival of an assured and exhilarating new voice in literary crime fiction.
 
It's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two murders. On the front page there's a photograph of a glamorous Egyptian woman, a socialite and heiress to an oil fortune, whose partially clothed body has been found in the basement of a block of flats. It would appear that she has been the subject of a sexual attack. In the back pages of the same paper there is a fifty-word piece on the murder of a young prostitute whose body has been found dumped on a roadside near the McVitie's factory.
 
For Bane -- fixer, loanshark and legman for one of Manchester's established ganglords -- it's the second piece of news that hits hardest. Determined to find out what happened to his childhood sweetheart, he searches through the tribes and estates of his bombed city for answers. It soon becomes clear that the two newspaper stories belong on the same page, and that Bane's world belongs to others -- those willing to profit from gun arsenals, human trafficking and a Manchester in decay.
 
The Doll Princess introduces the mesmeric narrator, Henry Bane, a conflicted man caught up in a mire of evil, and his creator, Tom Benn -- an assured and exhilarating new voice in literary crime fiction.

About the Author:

TOM BENN was born in 1987, and grew up in Stockport. He is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing MA and was the recipient of the 2009 Malcolm Bradbury bursary. His first novel, The Doll Princess, was shortlisted for the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and the Portico Prize, and longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's John Creasey Dagger. Chamber Music was published in 2013.