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  • Published: 1 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446473207
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

A Dance of Ghosts




An utterly convincing and utterly compelling crime debut from a major new talent.

'A Dance of Ghosts is unputdownable. Riveting.' Mo Hayder

PI John Craine is struggling to cope with the weight of his past. Sixteen years ago his wife, Stacy, was brutally murdered. Craine found her body in their bed. And since then, to escape the pain and the unanswered questions, he has buried himself in work by day, and whisky by night.

But one phone call changes everything. The mother of missing young woman Anna Gerrish calls on his services, and Craine soon finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of corruption and lies that leads back into the murky waters of the past - and to the night that Craine has spent over a decade trying to forget. As he delves deeper and deeper into the case everything gets increasingly, terrifyingly, personal. And it's down to Craine to stop history from repeating itself ...

  • Published: 1 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446473207
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

About the author

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks has written nine children's novels and has won several awards including Canongate Prize for New Writing, Branford Boase Award, Kingston Youth Book Award, North East Book Award, Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis Jury Prize, Buxtehude Bulle, Golden Bookworm. A Dance of Ghosts is the first of his adult novels. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, Sue.

Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter, Devon, and he studied in Birmingham and London. He has worked in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before - happily - giving it all up to write books. Kevin is the award-winning author of eight novels and lives in North Yorkshire.


'Kevin Brooks just gets better and better, and given that he started off brilliant, that leaves one scratching around for superlatives' - Sunday Telegraph             .

'He's an original. And he writes one hell of a story' - Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now

'A masterly writer' - Mail on Sunday

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Praise for A Dance of Ghosts

Unputdownable and riveting.

Mo Hayder

A superb plot, fantastic characters and brilliant writing.

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