Dead Ground
Book description
Winner of the prestigious CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2022
Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2022
'Heart-pounding, hilarious, sharp and shocking, Dead Ground is further proof that M.W. Craven never disappoints. Miss this series at your peril.' Chris Whitaker
'Dark and entertaining, this…
Why read it?
1 author picked Dead Ground as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I picked this up cheaply in a second-hand bookstore. What a bargain it was. It introduced me to Detective Sergeant Washington (there is a subplot here) Poe of the National Crime Agency’s Serious Crime Analysis Section and his offsider Matilda ‘Tilly’ Bradshaw, a brilliant mathematician and programmer extraordinaire.
I immediately spent much more per copy (see homo economicus in my third choice entry) buying all of Craven’s books: and consuming (I am an economist at heart) them avidly.
I appreciated the anti-authority stance of Detective Poe but fell in love with the socially naïve Tilly: it was good to see…
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