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Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mercer - a highly-decorated and successful detective, and author of a bestselling true crime book based on his years of experience catching killers. Mercer is a legend in the force and it's a huge opportunity for Mark, who has dedicated his life to his job ever since the death of his girlfriend years before.

When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mercer's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Only one of them ever survives until dawn. And his victims include a former member of Mercer's team.

Soon afterwards, a young man escapes from the woods, badly tortured and with his memory in tatters. He knows only that his girlfriend is still being held captive. But the team know that by fleeing, the man has sealed his girlfriend's fate. If they can't piece together his experience by daybreak then she will die in his place.

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The small team of policemen never even identified the dead girl, and for the officers involved her murder came to symbolise everything that was wrong with the city: a haphazard sprawl of commerce and indifference. Four months on, that group is in disarray. Sean has disappeared into the city’s black heart and not returned, and Martin is separated from his job, his wife and his friends. But then a simple note from his ex-partner forces him to re-enter an investigation he’d rather forget. ‘I found her’, it says. His search leads him from one side of the city to the other, in a downward spiral of violence and pain, and drags him into the orbit of the things that are really wrong with the city: the eight brothers rumoured by legend to have control over everything.

“Steve Mosby has invented a suitably dark and uneasy world for his excellent noir thriller… Mosby has a pleasingly consistent style that manages to encompass intense emotion, intellectual musings and vicious violence. Not an easy task.” (Matthew Lewin, The Guardian)

“A genre-bender from Mosby, melding crime thriller and futuristic fantasy with real élan … Excellent, noir and nightmarish … completely believable and tangibly depicted. A stimulating, challenging and rewarding novel. ” (Cath Staincliffe, Tangled Web)

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‘This isn’t some kind of ‘dear John’ letter. I’m coming back again.’ But Amy Foster didn’t come back. That note on the kitchen table was the last that her boyfriend, Jason, heard of her. At first, he had let her have her space but as the weeks turned to months the worries had set in…and eventually he went after her. What he found appalled him. It seems that Amy had had a secret life on the internet and had met some people she shouldn’t have. And one of them took her. Now Jason sits at home and cruises the same horrific websites that she once walked through to find her kidnapper. But when he lays a trap for a monster that he meets in a chat-room he gets more than he bargained for. He finds that nothing in this story is as it seems and that the clues lie in the mistakes of his own past…

“The most extraordinary first novel I’ve read for a while … I won’t waste time trying to give you an outline of this indescribable mixture of near-future satire, detective story and psychological horror. I’ll just say that writing of this quality and originality doesn’t come along very often - if you don’t read Mosby this year, you’ll be reading about him next year, so why not get a head start?” (Mat Coward, Morning Star)

“a seedy novel with an oily aftertaste” (Andrea Thompson, Murder and Mayhem Book Club)

‘Debut novelist Mosby has packed a complex, sometimes bewildering plot with brilliant ideas. His book is fiercely orginal, truly intriguing. This is speculative fiction at its reckless best.’ (Philip Oakes, Literary Review)

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