Weirdo

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Twenty years ago, a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates. But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didn't act alone, and Sean Ward - a private investigator whose promising career in the Met was cut short by a teenage drug dealer with an automatic weapon - travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth, to try to discover what really happened all those years ago. But he quickly realises that what's ultimately at stake is not Corrine's reputation, but those of the people who ran the place then - and still run it now. In order to get to the truth, he has to take on not just retired Detective Inspector Len Rivett - the man who headed up the original case and wants to keep it firmly closed -- but also the mindset of an entire town that has always known how to look after its own.Review"'Unsworth's best yet, as sharp as vinegar on chips' (FT) 'A serious talent... she has brilliantly captured that desperate sense of teenage boredom, isolation, danger and mayhem' (Daily Mirror) 'A creepy, credible page-turner that delights and disturbs' (Metro) 'A great, page-turning read. The sense of place... is spot on. I think the whole package works beautifully: memory traces, bad magic, sounds, smells' (Iain Sinclair)" About the AuthorCathi Unsworth began a career in journalism at ninetten on the music weekly Sounds, and has since worked on for many music, arts, film and alternative lifestyle journals. She is the author of three other novels, The Not Knowing [9781852428921], The Singer [9781846686405] and Bad Penny Blues [9781846686788], and the editor of the award-winning crime compendium London Noir, all published by Serpent's Tail. She lives in London.