Driving home one night from his mother’s funeral, Chief Inspector Dalliance suddenly finds himself embroiled once more in a new string of murders – and a dangerous, cynical game targeting the lowest, the most vulnerable, and the most desperate.
His own life unravelling around him, Dalliance is cast out of the investigation under the guise of compassionate leave. But as the case grows increasingly personal, he strikes out on his own to solve the sinister riddle, with or without official sanction.
With the victims chosen from the voiceless, invisible underclass, and human life seemingly valued at nothing, local feuds and professional politics begin to take precedence. Perhaps only Dalliance, with so little left to lose, can take on the Hangman and win.
About the author
SIMON RAE is a poet, prose writer and broadcaster.For a decade he wrote topical poems for the Guardian, and for five of those years he presented Radio 4’s Poetry Please!
In 1998 Faber published his definitive biography of W.G.Grace, and the following year he won the National Poetry Competition.
Prose works include It’s Not Cricket (Faber), and the children’s novels Unplayable (Top Edge Press) and Medusa’s Butterfly (Corgi).
He has published several anthologies, including The Faber Book of Murder and The Faber Books of Christmas, and with Michael Hulse edited The 20th Century in Poetry (Ebury). He has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at three universities and has recently completed two years at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
He plays cricket with ever-decreasing competence and divides his time between Oxfordshire and Wales.
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