By Anya Lipska
‘GRIPPING’ – VAL MCDERMID
When masked males brutally homicide of his closest acquaintances, Janusz Kiszka – fixer to East London’s Poles – needs to dig deep into the city’s felony underbelly to trace down the killers and carry justice. Shadowing a gorgeous Ukrainian woman he believes may clear up the secret, Kiszka unearths himself skating dangerously just about her ruthless ‘businessman’ boyfriend. in the meantime, his outdated nemesis, police detective Natalie Kershaw is suffering to spot a secret suicide, a Pole who jumped off the head of Canary Wharf Tower. yet all isn't really what it kind of feels…
Sparks fly as Kiszka and Kershaw’s paths pass back, but if their separate investigations demand a trip to Poland’s wintry japanese borders, they are pressured to name an uneasy truce...
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‘Lipska is a criminal offense author of bravura talents, and this visceral imaginative and prescient of recent London boasts advanced protagonists, pungently realised locales and a willing social awareness’ – BRIT NOIR
'A shrewdpermanent plot, attention-grabbing characters and plausible wisdom of the edgy lives of immigrnants part pining for the outdated country' - THE LONDON TIMES
'Intelligent and unique: half secret, half attention-grabbing portrait of London's without end altering population' – ALEX MARWOOD, writer, The Darkest Secret
'A brilliant mixture of crime, grit, politics, suspense and sinister undercurrents with a different feel of humour’ – MARTYN WAITES, writer of the Joe Donovan series
‘Riveting. Kiszka and Kershaw are the most compelling duos in modern crime fiction’ – STAV SHEREZ, writer, 11 Days
‘Nothing new within the crime style? definite there's. There’s Anya Lipska’ – DAVID MARK, author
'Pacy and enthralling.' – MALCOLM MCKAY, writer, the mandatory dying of Lewis Winter
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So that you imagine she can be a suspect within the homicide? ’ ‘I imagine it’s much more likely that her boyfriend is concerned. Do you're keen on the sourdough? ’ ‘It’s awesome,’ she acknowledged, taking one other slice from the board he held out. ‘Is it home-made? ’ ‘Of course,’ he shrugged. ‘If you will have first rate sourdough during this kingdom you'll want to make it your self. ’ ‘So who’s the boyfriend? ’ Janusz hesitated, yet just for a second. ‘Barbu Romescu. A Romanian “businessman”’ – the prices have been audible – ‘I imagine one in every of his actions is bringing in women from Ukraine to paintings within the intercourse exchange. i feel she was once one of many ladies he trafficked, prior to she bought promoted to female friend prestige. ’ little need to inform her in regards to the smuggling, and the character of the contraband – it will purely complicate concerns. ‘Could Jim were one among her … shoppers? ’ ‘Not in one million years,’ he growled. ‘Have you requested her? even if she met Jim via her activity as a intercourse employee? ’ He stared at her. ‘That’s no longer the type of query a guy can placed to a girl. ’ Christ Almighty, notion Kershaw, this man may by no means stop to amaze her. She made a sceptical face. ‘So what may possibly your pal Jim need to do with a Romanian gangster? ’ ‘I don’t understand. I’ve been attempting to … befriend the lady, to attempt to determine. ’ anything in his demeanour made her ask: ‘Good having a look, is she? ’ ‘I haven’t noticed,’ he acknowledged, flashing her a smile acknowledged that certain, she used to be. Kershaw pursed her lips. ‘And you're thinking that she might grass this Romescu up? ’ Janusz paused, completing a mouthful of bread, sensing the 1st stirrings of a plan which may get Varenka to defense. ‘She may perhaps, yet no longer whereas she’s dwelling with him. ’ Pushing her bowl to 1 aspect she acknowledged: ‘That was once scrumptious. ’ Chin propped on one hand, she drummed her palms on her cheekbone. ‘It’s now not adequate to deliver him in for wondering, and I’m guessing that interviewing the lady may possibly positioned her at risk? ’ A sombre nod from Kiszka. He stood to transparent the plates, declining her supply of aid with a sleek incline of his head. After surroundings a espresso pot at the range, he became, and leaned his again opposed to the worktop, folding his palms. He reminded Kershaw of a sizeable statue she’d noticeable as soon as, on a faculty journey to the British Museum. Zeus, used to be it? Or one of many Roman emperors? ‘Look,’ he acknowledged. ‘She desires to go away Romescu and that i imagine as soon as she’s someplace secure, she will be persuaded to speak. Can the law enforcement officials organize for her to get a few form of asylum prestige, in go back for her giving facts – so she doesn’t get despatched again to Ukraine? ’ Kershaw pulled a uncertain grimace; she may perhaps already pay attention Streaky’s reaction: If she supplies us a few rock-solid proof that would really resolve a criminal offense, I’ll have a note with these muppets on the domestic place of work – no longer a second ahead of. ‘I can ask,’ she acknowledged, ‘but to be sincere, and not using a bit extra to head on, I don’t carry out a lot desire. ’ He grunted: from the police officers’ viewpoint, he may see that the hyperlink among Jim and Romescu was once tenuous, to assert the least. Returning to the seat contrary her, he ran a thumbnail alongside his unshaven jaw, making the bristles rasp.