A Dark Redemption

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A Dark Redemption introduces DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of a young Ugandan student. Plunged into an underworld of illegal immigrant communities, they discover that the murdered girl's studies at a London College may have threatened to reveal things that some people will go to any lengths to keep secret.

Unflinching, inventive and intelligent, A Dark Redemption explores a sinister case that will force DI Carrigan to face up to his past and DS Miller to confront what path she wants her future to follow.

Reviews

"A superior novel, well written and plotted, with a convincing backdrop about a continent that rarely features in crime fiction." --Marcel Berlins, THE TIMES

"Fast paced and slick, this is the first in what could well be an outstanding series." --Laura Wilson, GUARDIAN

"A Dark Redemption is a clever, multi-layered beginning to a promising new series . . . Sherez does a masterful job with a particularity haunting plot."--Henry Sutton, (Book of the Week) "The Daily Mirror"

"This intriguing and well-written thriller is highly original . . . Sherez ventures into a part of London that crime fiction readers probably never see. A salutary read, highly recommended."--Jessica Mann, "Literary Review"

Author Bio

Stav Sherez is a freelance journalist and the author of two previous novels. The Devil's Playground, his debut, was described by James Sallis as 'altogether extraordinary, it introduces a major new talent', and his second novel The Black Monastery, was described as 'dynamite fiction' in the Independent and 'spectacular' by Laura Wilson in the Guardian.