The Heights
- 3 Sep 2020
- 9781838850807
- £8.99
- 320 pp
- 129×198mm
- 3 Sep 2020
- 9781838850814
- £4.79
- 320 pp
In a few words
The gripping second book in the Crane and Drake series from crime writer Parker Bilal
In a few words
The gripping second book in the Crane and Drake series from crime writer Parker Bilal
Inventive and original . . . The Heights is a complex and satisfying mystery involving finance, gangland, trafficking and prostitution. A layered, no-nonsense thriller that is intriguing and exciting
Praise for The Divinities:
Terrific crime fiction rooted in geopolitics
Inventive and original . . . The Heights is a complex and satisfying mystery involving finance, gangland, trafficking and prostitution. A layered, no-nonsense thriller that is intriguing and exciting
Praise for The Divinities:
Terrific crime fiction rooted in geopolitics
More about
the book
What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He’s teamed up with enigmatic forensic psychologist Dr Rayhana Crane and it’s not long before the case leads them to the darkest corners of the nation’s capital and in dangerously close contact with an international crime circuit, a brutal local rivalry and a very personal quest for retribution. With the murder victim tied to Drake’s past, his new future is about to come under threat.
More about
the book
What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He’s teamed up with enigmatic forensic psychologist Dr Rayhana Crane and it’s not long before the case leads them to the darkest corners of the nation’s capital and in dangerously close contact with an international crime circuit, a brutal local rivalry and a very personal quest for retribution. With the murder victim tied to Drake’s past, his new future is about to come under threat.
Praise for The Divinities:
Bilal tells the story with ferocious, exhilarating energy . . . essential reading
A firecracker of a novel that delves deep into the rot infecting both politics and big business
Eric Van Lustbader, Author Of The Bourne Legacy
Told with a delicate elegance . . . It promises to be a fine series
A brilliantly-written London Noir from a master of the crime genre
Mason Cross, Author Of Presumed Dead
Praise for The Divinities:
Bilal tells the story with ferocious, exhilarating energy . . . essential reading
A firecracker of a novel that delves deep into the rot infecting both politics and big business
Eric Van Lustbader, Author Of The Bourne Legacy
Told with a delicate elegance . . . It promises to be a fine series
A brilliantly-written London Noir from a master of the crime genre
Mason Cross, Author Of Presumed Dead
Parker Bilal
View profileParker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary novelist. He is the author of the Makana Investigations series, the third of which, The Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The Divinities, the first in his Crane & Drake London crime series, was published in 2019. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands.
@Parker_Bilal | jamalmahjoub.com
Parker Bilal
View profileParker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary novelist. He is the author of the Makana Investigations series, the third of which, The Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The Divinities, the first in his Crane & Drake London crime series, was published in 2019. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands.
@Parker_Bilal | jamalmahjoub.com
