Shortlisted for the 2012 Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger for best first novelShortlisted for the 2012 Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger for best first novelIntroducing DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half-Italian, all maverick. He’s fallen from grace in Cardiff and exiled to be the catch-all detective in the big bit in the middle that God gave to the sheep. A place where nothing of any significance is meant to happen, a place where supposedly he can do little harm.But trouble have a way of catching-up with Capaldi. Six men and a young woman disappear into the night. They don’t all reappear. The ones that do are good people with a good explanation. Only Capaldi remains unconvinced.In the face of opposition from the locals, he delves deeper and starts to uncover a network of conflicts, betrayals and depravity that resonates below the outwardly calm surface of rural respectability. D.S. Capaldi is back in the saddle.'GOOD PEOPLE's corkscrew plot skewers small-town hypocrisy with a wry smile and a sniff of disgust. An entertaining debut with more stings in the tail than a bag of scorpions.' VAL McDERMID‘a terrific novel that blows a fresh breath in to crime fiction … as if Ian Rankin had been transported to Wales’crimesquad.com‘A cross between Frost and Hot Fuzz … one of the most interesting and enjoyable crime books I’ve read for a long time’ reviewingtheevidence.com‘I read it in two sittings and was well rewarded. Twists and turns made the plot lively and fast paced’ NEW BOOKS MAGEwart Hutton was born and raised in and around Glasgow before slipping south to university in Manchester, and then on to diverse occupations in London. He has won numerous awards and prizes for his radio plays which have been produced for BBC Radio 4, RTE, and Radio Clyde. His first Glyn Capaldi mystery, GOOD PEOPLE, was shortlisted for the CWA’s Debut Dagger award in 2012. He lives in southern France with his wife Annie.• Lovereading’s Ebook of the Month February 2012• Crimesquad’s Fresh Blood Book of the Month February 2012• Already creating much excitement within the crime community, Ewart has been dubbed the Ian Rankin of Wales.• This series has many of the characteristics that make the Wallander series so thoroughly addictive.•Something a little bit different in a very crowded market – full of wonderful characters, lush landscapes, good humour and great writing.•First in a three-book deal in which we have world rights,including translation, US rights, plus film and television.•Introducing the maverick half-Welsh, half-Italian detective, Glyn Capaldi, in the first of new series.Competition: Dead Embers (Dci Michael Lambert Crime Series Book 3); Borderlands (Inspector Devlin Mystery Series Book 1); Ghost In The Machine (Dc Scott Cullen Crime Series Book 1); Doctor Thorne. Stuart MacBride;Val McDermid; Ian Rankin; Peter May; Matt Brolly; Brian McGilloway; Ed James; Anthony Trollope;
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