by Tony Parsons
TONY PARSONS
I always knew that I would write. I knew that nothing would stop me. I always loved stories, I always found books engaged me like nothing else, and helped me to make sense of the world.
I left school at sixteen, did a number of low-paid unskilled jobs, and I was working on the night shift in Gordon’s Gin Distillery in Islington when I was offered my first job in journalism on New Musical Express. Since then I have become an award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist, and my books have been published in over forty languages, most recently Vietnamese. My semi-autobiographical novel, Man and Boy, won the Book of the Year prize.
The last few years have been all about Detective Max Wolfe for me. The Murder Bag was the first in a series of crime novels featuring Detective Max Wolfe and his world – from the Murder Investigation Room at West End Central, 27 Savile Row, to the Black Museum in New Scotland Yard to the home he shares with his daughter and dog in a loft high above Smithfield meat market. Then there was The Slaughter Man, The Hanging Club, Die Last, and Girl on Fire is next.
I live in London with my wife, our daughter and our dog, Stan.
Don’t be a lost contact. Keep in touch with me at:
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First published by Century in 2018
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Table of Contents
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Tony Parsons
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