Blackbird
Tom Wright
Available as eBook
ASK NO QUESTIONS. TELL NO LIES. STAY CLOSE TO THE FLOCK.
“Dr. Deborah Serach Gold died on the cross sometime during a night of freezing rain in late October of my last year at Three. It probably wasn’t the worst thing that happened to her that day, but it had been over two decades in the making …”
The day after a terrible storm, electricity still crackling in the air, a woman is found dead on the outskirts of a Texan town. She has been brutally attacked and nailed to a cross.
The victim is Dr Deborah Gold, a psychologist who has taken a lot of people’s secrets to her grave.
Which means a lot of suspects for Detective Jim Beaudry Bonham to investigate. And lately he could use some psychological help himself …
“Hypnotic, menacing and powerful. A crime novel that does so much more than most others in the genre. Blackbird is dark, haunting and beautifully written”
Mark Billingham
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“Lean and mean, Blackbird is great American noir”
Gordon Ferris
“A haunting novel, a captivating debut, I loved it”
S.j. Watson, Author Of Before I Go To Sleep
on What Dies In Summer
“Terrific … Reminds me of To Kill a Mockingbird”
Ian Rankin
on What Dies In Summer
“A hauntingly lyrical rite-of-passage tale that was also a compelling and disturbing murder mystery… I was utterly absorbed”
Christopher Brookmyre On What Dies In Summer
Tom Wright
Tom Wright lives in Texarkana and is a practicing clinical psychotherapist. Blackbird is his second novel. His first novel, What Dies in Summer, also published by Canongate, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger in 2012.