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'Everyone is hooked on something.
'It's not that easy to kick the money habit. After the world meltdown forces London's bankers to go cold turkey, people look elsewhere for a quick quid: the old fashioned East End.
'So when investigator Catherine Berlin gets an anonymous tip-off about a local loan shark, the case seems straightforward - until her informant is found floating in the Limehouse Basin.
'In another part of town, a notorious doctor is murdered in his surgery, and his entire stock of pharmaceutical heroin stolen. An unorthodox copper is assigned to the case, and Berlin finds herself a reluctant collaborator in a murder investigation.
'Now Berlin has seven days to find out who killed her informant, why the police are hounding her and, most urgently of all, where to find a new - and legal - supply of the drug she can't survive without.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: For my sister
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Epigraph:
The great white shark never sleeps. It must keep moving or sink to the bottom and drown. It has a number of adaptations that make it an efficient killer and the first bite is frequently a death blow. - Wikipedia
What hath night to do with sleep? - 'Paradise Lost', John Milton
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Works about this Work
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Prose, Cons and Misdeeds
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 9 June 2012; (p. 30-31)
— Review of In Her Blood 2012 single work novel ; Silent Valley 2012 single work novel ; After the Darkness 2012 single work novel ; The Betrayal 2012 single work novel -
Bookmarks
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6-7 April 2012; (p. 35) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on Rocky Wood's win in the Horror Writers Assocation awards and a background note on the publication of Annie Hauxwell's debut novel.
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Prose, Cons and Misdeeds
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 9 June 2012; (p. 30-31)
— Review of In Her Blood 2012 single work novel ; Silent Valley 2012 single work novel ; After the Darkness 2012 single work novel ; The Betrayal 2012 single work novel -
Bookmarks
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6-7 April 2012; (p. 35) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on Rocky Wood's win in the Horror Writers Assocation awards and a background note on the publication of Annie Hauxwell's debut novel.
Awards
- 2013 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2011 shortlisted Crime Writers' Association (UK) — The CWA Debut Dagger Shortlisted under the title 'A Vicious Indulgence'.
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- 2010s