SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2023

''[A] terrific crime novel'' Mick Herron

''This moody, atmospheric novel is full of surprises'' Sunday Times (Crime Book of the Month)

''[W]ell plotted and very funny'' ***** Sun

''This has a TV series written all over it'' Daily Mail

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Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classesAs a young Detective Inspector, he''s lost none of his disgust with privileged elites - or his objectionable manners. But he notices things; they stick to his eyes. His professional partner, DI Ray Wilkins, of affluent Nigerian-London heritage, is an impeccably groomed, smooth-talking graduate of Balliol College, Oxford.

You wouldn''t think they would get on. They don''t.

But when a young woman is found strangled at Barnabas Hall, they''re forced to.

Rich Oxford is not Ryan''s natural habitat. St Barnabas''s irascible Provost does not appreciate his forceful line of questioningBut what was the dead woman doing in the Provost''s study? Is it just a coincidence that on the night of her murder the college was entertaining Sheik al-Medina, a Gulf state ruler linked to human-rights abuses in his own country and acts of atrocity in others?

As tensions rise, things aren''t going wellRay is in despair. Ryan is in disciplinary measures. But their investigation gradually disentangles the links between a Syrian refugee lawyer now working in the college kitchens, a priceless copy of the Koran in the college collection and the identity of the dead woman.




A Killing in November introduces an unlikely duo from different sides of the tracks in Oxford in a deftly plotted murder story full of dangerous turns, troubled pasts and unconventional detective work.



Format Häftad Omfång 416 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Quercus Publishing Utgivningsdatum 2024-11-21 ISBN 9781529438413