Restless Coffins
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-78530-396-8 (ISBN)
Description
'Brother, a dead body can't run from a coffin, but their spirit sure as hell can try.'
Life is tough for JT Ellington. As an ex-cop he isn't exactly built for the job of morally corrupt private eye. But it's 1967 in St Paul's, Bristol, and he doesn't have a choice. He's still trading in favours, helping those wary of the police. And as the cousin of Vic, Harlem's newest crime lord, JT's business is booming.
As he travels to New York and becomes entangled with the seedy underworld, tragedy unfolds thousands of miles away in Barbados, and JT discovers his cousin's activities stretch all the way back to his hometown - a web of violence that catches his own wife and daughters' tragic deaths in its wake. Forced to journey home to the Caribbean and embroiled in a world of drugs and corruption, can JT untangle a dark history on the island of his birth?
'Great "Windrush Noir". Keep them coming.'
DERMOT O'LEARY
'Intense, emotive, shocking and oozing atmosphere and character, Restless Coffins really captured the times and emotions beautifully!'
CRIME BOOK JUNKIE
Life is tough for JT Ellington. As an ex-cop he isn't exactly built for the job of morally corrupt private eye. But it's 1967 in St Paul's, Bristol, and he doesn't have a choice. He's still trading in favours, helping those wary of the police. And as the cousin of Vic, Harlem's newest crime lord, JT's business is booming.
As he travels to New York and becomes entangled with the seedy underworld, tragedy unfolds thousands of miles away in Barbados, and JT discovers his cousin's activities stretch all the way back to his hometown - a web of violence that catches his own wife and daughters' tragic deaths in its wake. Forced to journey home to the Caribbean and embroiled in a world of drugs and corruption, can JT untangle a dark history on the island of his birth?
'Great "Windrush Noir". Keep them coming.'
DERMOT O'LEARY
'Intense, emotive, shocking and oozing atmosphere and character, Restless Coffins really captured the times and emotions beautifully!'
CRIME BOOK JUNKIE
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bonnier Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78530-396-8 (9781785303968)
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Person
M.P. Wright was born in Leicestershire in 1965. He was employed in various roles within the music industry before working as a private investigator. He retrained in 1989 and spent the next twenty years in the mental health and probation services in the UK, specialising in risk assessment. A self-confessed aficionado of film, music and real ale, and father of two beautiful daughters, Mark lives with his partner and their two Rottweiler dogs, Tiff and Dylan. His first novel, Heartman was longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger in 2015.