She’s a single parent, a private eye and liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son…
Sal’s search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a place of deprivation and petty theft, of well-heeled organised crime and ultimately murder. Would she have taken on the job if she had known what she was getting into? Absolutely.
Winner of Commonword’s Novel Writing Competition in 1994, this is Cath Staincliffe’s debut novel and the first of eight crime novels featuring private detective Sal Kilkenny.
Struggling single mother Sal Kilkenny is compassionate, gutsy, bright enough to know when it’s clever to be scared and tenacious as a Rottweiler. Cath Staincliffe’s tour of the means streets and leafy suburbs of Manchester reveals the city as the natural successor to Marlowe’s Los Angeles. With a cast of characters drawn from the gutter to the high ranks of business and officialdom, she probes the city’s underbelly in an exciting tale of corruption, exploitation and brutality.”
Val McDermid
