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The Final Vow
Series: Washington Poe
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The Final Vow is the next unmissable novel in the Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning Washington Poe series. Poe and Tilly fans: be prepared for the most twisted thrill-ride so far... An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest...
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The next darkly funny, twisted thrill-ride of a book in the bestselling Washington Poe series.
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The Final Vow is the next unmissable novel in the Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning Washington Poe series. Poe and Tilly fans: be prepared for the most twisted thrill-ride so far...
An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe...
A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. It's brutal and bloody, but she isn't the first victim and she won't be the last. With the body count now at 17, people are terrified, not knowing where the sniper will strike next.
With the nation in a state of panic, the police are at a loss and turn to Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw - the only team who just might be able to track down a serial killer following no discernible pattern and with the whole country as his personal hunting ground. Can Poe and Tilly stop an unstoppable assassin, who never misses his mark and never makes a mistake? Or will he find them before they find him...
*Previously listed as The Third Light
EVERYONE LOVES M.W. CRAVEN:
'Washington Poe is a brilliant creation from one of the finest and most inventive crime writers of today' - Peter James
'Mesmerising, macabre and magnificent. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable' - Chris Whitaker
'If you haven't read any M.W. Craven yet, fix that immediately' - S. A. Cosby
'I've been following M.W. Craven's Poe/Tilly series from the very beginning, and it just gets better and better' - Peter Robinson
'Poe and Tilly books are a joy' - Steve Cavanagh
'In Tilly and Poe, M.W. Craven has created a stand-out duo who are two of the most compelling characters in crime fiction in recent years' - Fiona Cummins
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781408717547
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 August 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Constable
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 400
About the Author
Multi-award-winning author M.W. Craven was born in Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle. He joined the army at sixteen, leaving ten years later to complete a social work degree. Seventeen years after taking up a probation officer role in Cumbria, at the rank of assistant chief officer, he became a full-time author. He is an instant Sunday Times bestseller and, for his Cumbria-set Washington Poe series, a recipient of the 2019 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, the 2022 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023. The series has now been translated into twenty-seven languages
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