The White MercedesA chance meeting with Jenny at an Oxford party leaves seventeen year old Chris with hope for a summer romance and no premonition of trouble. Busy with his job and soon in love with Jenny, whose cheerful surface belies the dark uncertainty of her past, Chris misses all the signs of danger. Before he knows it, he's caught in the sinister web of a criminal whose desire for revenge crushes all those who stand in his way. The story line will hook readers

Travelling to Tarracooma with Bill Gilson there is a confrontation with the bad guys and some arrests are made

crocodiles and jellyfish

and has written some of the most memorable scenes and dialogue I've encountered in the past decade' VANITY FAIR

author of Everything is Illuminated

The fate of his world rests in his hands

and in a country still recovering from the Great War

compassionate and atmospheric' - Elly Griffiths

In the Stockholm suburb of Raby

The next morning she is found dead

The jade was taken from its museum during the years of the Cultural Revolution when Red Guards swarmed the streets

desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter

Qwilleran finds himself doing a feature on a very clever murderer