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Born in a Burial Gown
Series: Avison Fluke
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The first dark and gripping Avison Fluke thriller by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show and Black Summer.
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Deeply layered, fiendishly clever and absorbing — Matt Hilton, author of the Joe Hunter series
The first gritty thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show.
Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless. Just as he thinks things can't get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a Cumbrian building site.
Shot once in the back of the head, it is a cold, calculated execution. When the post-mortem reveals she has gone to significant expense in disguising her appearance, Fluke knows this is no ordinary murder.
With the help of a psychotic ex-Para, a gangland leader and a woman more interested in maggots than people, Fluke must find out who she was and why she was murdered before he can even think about finding her killer...
Praise for M. W. Craven:Dark, sharp and compelling — PETER JAMES
Fantastic — MARTINA COLE
Britain's answer to Harry Bosch — MATT HILTON
Thrilling — MICK HERRON
Brilliantly inventive — WILLIAM SHAW
A powerful thriller from an explosive new talent — DAVID MARK
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Born in a Burial Gown
Deeply layered, fiendishly clever and absorbing — Matt Hilton, author of the Joe Hunter series The first gritty thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show. Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Body Breaker
This is high quality crime writing - A A Dhand The second dark and twisted thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show. Investigating how a severed hand ends up on the third green of a Cumbrian golf course is not how Detective Inspector Avison Fluke has planned to spend his...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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Born in a Burial Gown by M. W. Craven has been praised as dark, sharp, and compelling. It's characterised as fantastic and a thrilling start to a promising series. Described as a powerful thriller, it's tightly plotted and intense, making it not for the faint-hearted.
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ISBN: 9781472132642
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 January 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Constable
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 240g
Pages: 352
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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