This is a book about the late 20th-century history of the Southcentral community, and about why the music that came from there is so potent. The phenomenal success of Los Angelinos like NWA, Ice T, Ice Cube, Coolio, Dr Dre, Snoop and Warren G means that every block in Southcentral contains at least one boy who wants to be a rapper.
This is a book about the late 20th-century history of the Southcentral community, and about why the music that came from there is so potent. The pheno...
London, October 1968. As Beatles fans encamp outside Abbey Road Studios up the road, the Marylebone CID is as much an old boys' club as it ever was. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is the pariah of the office, having just run out on a fellow officer held at knifepoint, when it's shaken up by the arrival of WPC Helen Tozer: awkward chatterbox, farmgirl, and the first woman to enter the murder unit - apart from the secretary. When a young woman is found naked and strangled in well-to-do St John's Wood, her identity is a mystery. The neighbours offer nothing but xenophobic suspicions, witnesses...
London, October 1968. As Beatles fans encamp outside Abbey Road Studios up the road, the Marylebone CID is as much an old boys' club as it ever was. D...
London 1968. A city of two sides. A copper caught in the crossfire. The Black Sheep. The wayward son of a rising MP is mutilated and burnt in suspicious circumstances. The Honest Detective. DS Cathal Breen dodges political embargo and death threats to pursue the case. The Rolling Stone. Notorious art dealer Robert Fraser may provide the only clue - if only he will talk. And as Breen slips deeper into London's underground of hippies and heroin, he edges nearer to the secrets of those at the very top. Banished from a corrupt and fracturing system, he will finally be forced to fight fire with...
London 1968. A city of two sides. A copper caught in the crossfire. The Black Sheep. The wayward son of a rising MP is mutilated and burnt in suspici...
In the fourth Breen & Tozer, William Shaw marries a gripping police procedural with an espionage plot to bring the series to a stunning and moving climax
In the fourth Breen & Tozer, William Shaw marries a gripping police procedural with an espionage plot to bring the series to a stunning and moving cli...
'William Shaw is one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction. This is his best book to date' Peter James 'Taut, terrifying and timely' Val McDermid 'William Shaw is a superb storyteller' Peter May SHE ALWAYS WENT TOO FAR DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Murder is different here, among the fens and stark beaches. SHE WAS THE ONE WHO FOUND THE KILLERS The man drowned in the slurry pit had been...
'William Shaw is one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction. This is his best book to date' Peter James 'Taut, terrifying and timely' Val Mc...
