Description
Ray Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime.
Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage.
Lennox has no choice – he must confront the events of his childhood. But the more he identifies the links between Cardingworth, the disappearance of a group of foster care boys and the violence of his past, the more he finds himself asking:
What will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?
Old truths have new consequences. A powerful, riveting novel in which maverick investigator Ray Lennox discovers that confronting his past could cost him everything.
Endorsements
The #1 Sunday Times bestseller.
'There's only one Welsh and you should be reading him' — Observer
'The best thing that has happened to British writing for decades' — Sunday Times
'Powerful . . . A bracing and engaging read' — Daily Telegraph
'Sharp, fearless, passionate and brilliant' — Independent