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A Welcome Grave

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8th November 2012

Price: £8.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444714005

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Lincoln Perry was once a rising star on the Cleveland police force, until he was kicked out after he got in a fight with Alex Jefferson, the millionaire his fiancée left him for. When Jefferson is tortured and murdered, it isn’t long before the police are at Lincoln’s door asking questions.

Things go from bad to worse when Lincoln agrees to do a favour for Jefferson’s widow – track down the dead man’s son who has unknowingly inherited his millions. What should be a routine search for a missing person ends with the son’s body lying in the morgue and Lincoln in jail.

Lincoln realises that Jefferson’s millions are the target of a thirst for revenge that hasn’t been satisfied by blood. But soon Lincoln is being pursued by a pair of deadly assailants and under pressure from the police, who are determined to put him back behind bars, if he survives long enough to make it there . . .

Reviews

<i>Publishers Weekly</i>
Koryta stakes a claim as one of today's preeminent crafters of contemporary hard-boiled mysteries.
<i>Kirkus Review</i>
No one in the genre writes better.
<i>Booklist</i>
[A] top-notch thriller.
<i>New York Times</i>
Stylish . . . well-observed.
Michael Connelly
Koryta is one of the best of the best
Laura Lippman
A nuanced, mature novel that proves botht he depth of Koryta's talent and the vitality of the PI genre.
<i>Mail on Sunday</i>
Michael Koryta is one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.
<i>Spectator</i>
Koryta knows how to build tension and create a febrile atmosphere . . . a writer to watch.
<i>News of the World</i>
[Koryta] possesses an unusual gift - the ability to write a sure-fire bestseller.
Dean Koontz
On my must-read list.
Daniel Woodrell
Michael Koryta is one of our new dynamos in the world of books . . . [he's] becoming a wonder we'll appreciate for a long time.