Harry Bingham

It's DC Fiona Griffiths' first murder case - and she's in at the deep end. A woman and her six-year-old daughter killed with chilling brutality in a dingy flat. The only clue: the platinum bank card of a long-dead tycoon, found amidst the squalor. DC Griffiths has already proved herself dedicated to the job, but there's another side to her she is less keen to reveal. Something to do with a mysteri...

When DC Fiona Griffiths says 'yes' to her policeman boyfriend, it's an affirmation that she wants finally to put her psychological breakdown behind her, and become a resident of 'Planet Normal' like everybody else. But she still can't resist the challenge of an undercover policing course, and finding it remarkably easy to assume a new identity, she comes top of the class. So when an ingenious payroll fraud starts to look like the tip of a huge criminal iceberg, Fiona is selected to infiltrate the fraudsters' operation. Posing as a meek former payroll clerk now forced to work as a cleaner, Fiona Griffiths becomes Fiona Grey, hoping the criminals will try and recruit her - knowing that if they discover her real identity, she's dead meat. But as Fiona penetrates deeper into their operation, coming closer to identifying the mastermind behind it, she faces another, even more frightening danger - that her always fragile grip on her sense of self has now been lost and she may never find her way back.

When DC Fiona Griffiths says 'yes' to her policeman boyfriend, it's an affirmation that she wants finally to put her psychological breakdown behind her, and become a resident of 'Planet Normal' like everybody else. But she still can't resist the challenge of an undercover policing course, and finding it remarkably easy to assume a new identity, she comes top of the class. So when an ingenious payroll fraud starts to look like the tip of a huge criminal iceberg, Fiona is selected to infiltrate the fraudsters' operation, posing as a meek former payroll clerk now forced to work as a cleaner. But as she penetrates deeper into their operation, coming closer to identifying the mastermind behind it, she faces another, even more frightening danger - that her always fragile grip on her sense of self has now been lost and she may never find her way back.

Late October, Cardiff. A human leg is discovered in a woman's freezer. The hunt for the rest of the corpse soon turns up body parts in kitchens, garages and potting sheds. The police conclude that the victim was a teenage girl killed some ten years earlier. But then other body parts start appearing, this time discarded carelessly, shortly after the victim - a man - was killed. Investigating the double crime draws DC Fiona Griffiths into a web of obsession, money, deceit - and acute personal danger. Which is exactly where she likes to be: in the middle of a gruesome puzzle with a pitch-black secret at its heart.

A riveting novel of friendship, adventure and love against the odds, set in the early days of flight in Prohibition-era America. Abe Rockwell and Willard T. Thornton are famous fighter pilots together in World War I. Willard returns to a hero''s welcome in America and launches a film career. Abe just wants to fly - and he has no rich family to support him. When he crash lands in small-town Georgia, the locals recognise Abe and appeal to him for help. Alcohol-smuggling gangsters are trying to oust them from their own homes. But Abe can''t see that his one patched-up aircraft can make much difference. Slowly, a plan forms and Abe needs help himself. Enter another tremendously skilled pilot - but it''s a woman. Abe doesn''t want to take her on, but she''s the best there is and brave with it. Neither of them can predict exactly what they''ve let themselves in for. Willard, meanwhile, forsakes films for banking and rises fast - only to uncover some very dodgy business at the core of the company. He''d like to turn a blind eye but eventually he''s in so deep that he can''t. The firm is under serious threat, from a devious and resourceful attacker.Which is when Willard realises who it must be, and how he''s going to have to team up with someone he''d always overlooked.

La novela negra más original de los últimos años en el Reino Unido.Para la policía Fiona Griffiths, su primer caso promete ser duro: el asesinato de una joven prostituta y su hija. Fiona siente que los muertos le hablan, un don para aclarar el casoPara la policia Fiona Griffiths, su primera gran investigacion promete ser una dura iniciacion en el submundo de Cardiff:una joven prostituta y su hija han sido brutalmente asesinadas en un piso.Todo apunta a que la victima debio de topar con el cliente equivocado, pero Fiona esta convencida de que el misterio es mucho mas profundo. De pronto, vuelve a sentir que pertenece al mundo de los muertos, que estos le hablan#, y ese punto debil, que algunos llaman sindrome de Cotard, se convierte en un don que da un giro a esta historia.Hablando con los muertos, la novela con que Harry Bingham irrumpe en las letras britanicas, esta considerada la obra mas original de los ultimos tiempos en el Reino Unido, al imaginar una posible comunicacion con los muertos tan polemica como extraña. El resultado, y el modo en que esta contada, no deja indiferente a nadie.

La novela negra más original de los últimos años en el Reino Unido.Para la policía Fiona Griffiths, su primer caso promete ser duro: el asesinato de una joven prostituta y su hija. Fiona siente que los muertos le hablan, un don para aclarar el caso Para la policia Fiona Griffiths, su primera gran investigacion promete ser una dura iniciacion en el submundo de Cardiff: una joven prostituta y su hija han sido brutalmente asesinadas en un piso. Todo apunta a que la victima debio de topar con el cliente equivocado, pero Fiona esta convencida de que el misterio es mucho mas profundo. De pronto, vuelve a sentir que pertenece al mundo de los muertos, que estos le hablan#, y ese punto debil, que algunos llaman sindrome de Cotard, se convierte en un don que da un giro a esta historia. Hablando con los muertos, la novela con que Harry Bingham irrumpe en las letras britanicas, esta considerada la obra mas original de los ultimos tiempos en el Reino Unido, al imaginar una posible comunicacion con los muertos tan polemica como extraña. El resultado, y el modo en que esta contada, no deja indiferente a nadie.

La novela negra más original de los últimos años en el Reino Unido.Para la policía Fiona Griffiths, su primer caso promete ser duro: el asesinato de una joven prostituta y su hija. Fiona siente que los muertos le hablan, un don para aclarar el casoPara la policia Fiona Griffiths, su primera gran investigacion promete ser una dura iniciacion en el submundo de Cardiff: una joven prostituta y su hija han sido brutalmente asesinadas en un piso.Todo apunta a que la victima debio de topar con el cliente equivocado, pero Fiona esta convencida de que el misterio es mucho mas profundo. De pronto, vuelve a sentir que pertenece al mundo de los muertos, que estos le hablan#, y ese punto debil, que algunos llaman sindrome de Cotard, se convierte en un don que da un giro a esta historia.Hablando con los muertos, la novela con que Harry Bingham irrumpe en las letras britanicas, esta considerada la obra mas original de los ultimos tiempos en el Reino Unido, al imaginar una posible comunicacion con los muertos tan polemica como extraña. El resultado, y el modo en que esta contada, no deja indiferente a nadie.