A 50th anniversary edition of the classic crime novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Sidney Poitier
A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on the highway. It's no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is that the black man - Virgil Tibbs - is himself a skilled homicide detective from California, whom inexperienced Chief Gillespie reluctantly recruits to help with the case. Faced with mounting local hostility and a police force that seems determined to see him fail, it isn't long before Tibbs - trained in karate and aikido - will have to fight not just for justice, but also for his own safety.
John Ball is a former GP and now a Devon based practitioner of the alternatives who has lectured and taught at schools and colleges of complementary medicine around the UK.
