Acts of Violence

Awakening the sleeping dragon... Smooth expat Michael Nicholson is a fixer, getting on by doing favours for the rich and powerful in booming China. When he makes the mistake of getting too close to one of his clients, the wife of a leading Communist Party official, the ageing Lothario fears for his life as a vengeful husband decides to put his house in order. So when a domestic dispute from the other side of the world leads to a shoot-out in a luxury penthouse apartment in Chelsea, an ex-cop called Marvin Taylor is one of the casualties. Inspector John Carlyle is little more than a casual onlooker until Taylor's widow turns up, looking for answers. The inspector is drawn into the morass of dealing and double-dealing, much to the dismay of his boss, Carole Simpson, who wants him to focus on Barbara Hutton, a Bloomsbury housewife who may - or may not - be a former German terrorist wanted for a forty-year-old murder... 'A cracking read' BBC Radio 4 'Fast paced and very easy to get quickly lost in' Lovereading.com

Product details

• Authors: James Craig
• Publisher: Constable
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781472115126
• ISBN: 978-1-4721-1512-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 132 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Inspector Carlyle; Inspector Carlyle
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, Crime and mystery fiction