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Some Sort of Justice
  • Published: 2 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529155747
  • Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $34.99
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Some Sort of Justice

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Tr. Paperback
2 June 2026
Hardback
4 July 2026
EBook
4 June 2026
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4 June 2026
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The first time in print for the million-copy-selling crime writer. A cast of good coppers, a wily ex-detective and a shadowy, well-connected operative are brought together by an aristocratic fatality. Only there’s no body, no forensics – and enemies in the highest places.

When Caroline Thorpe succeeded in casting doubt on the verdict of the inquest into her brother’s death, she could not have anticipated what would follow.

Freddie was Earl Thorpe of Burnham, and as the Kings Lake detectives soon begin to realise, influential people have gone to considerable lengths to cover up a potential scandal surrounding the young man’s death.

Led by DCI Cara Freeman, their investigation will take them from Norfolk into the capital, and from idealistic young campaigners to people at the heart of government. The stakes have never been higher for the detectives from Kings Lake Central.
  • Published: 2 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529155747
  • Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Peter Grainger

Peter Grainger is the 'creator of the greatest fictional sleuth you’ve probably never heard of' (FT magazine). A former sixth-form English teacher, Peter is the author of 23 self-published novels, 19 of which are now scheduled for release by major British and North American publishers. Peter lives with his wife, sometimes a grandson and a dog in a cottage in the Cambridgeshire fens. He travels as often as possible to the Norfolk coast he once called home.
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Praise for Some Sort of Justice

What sets Grainger’s books apart from the typical police procedural is the fully realized characters ... That and his elegant prose, with its pitch-perfect dialogue, which gets more assured and more playful in each book.

Financial Times

The books are comforting, yet the writing is subtle and the plots are gripping.

Emma Duncan, The Times

Grainger expertly balances deep dives into his characters' personal lives with intricate police work, resulting in a suspenseful mystery with palpable emotional stakes. This is everything a procedural should be.

Publishers Weekly, starred review