A Bitter Taste, the second Catherine Berlin novel from Annie Hauxwell, is fast-paced, addictive crime spiked with grit and grunge.
Treachery becomes a habit.
London is in the grip of a stifling heatwave.
The city has slowed to a claustrophobic shuffle; heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin suffers while working the lowest of investigations- matrimonial.
The city's junkies are in the grip of a drought of a different kind.
Sonja Kvist, a strung-out ghost from Berlin's past, turns up on her doorstep.
Sonja's daughter is missing.
An unpaid debt leaves Berlin no choice but to take the case of the missing ten-year-old.
Berlin is back, but soon the hunter becomes the hunted- corrupt detectives are on Berlin's tail chasing drugs she doesn't have, a young girl is murdered and the matrimonial case takes a fatal turn.
And the temperature keeps rising.
'Annie Hauxwell has given us a heroine for our bleak new age. Catch the wave now, while it's building.' The Times
'Tough, fast-paced and peopled with believable characters, this is crime fiction for the 21st century.' Sunday Canberra Times
By:
Annie Hauxwell Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 200mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 250g ISBN:9780143571490 ISBN 10: 0143571494 Publication Date:23 April 2014 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
