Turning Blue (Mace & Brindle, #1)

"Benjamin Myers is the master of English rural noir, and with Turning Blue, he has created a whole new genre: folk crime. I don’t read many crime novels, but this one is by turns gripping, ghastly and unputdownable. I'm already looking forward to the sequel." — Paul Kingsnorth, author of The Wake and Beast.

The depths of winter in the isolated Yorkshire Dales and a teenage girl is missing.

At a derelict farm high up on a hillside Steven Rutter, a destitute loner, harbours secrets. Nobody knows the bleak moors better than him, or their hiding places.

Obsessive, taciturn and solitary, detective Jim Brindle is relentless in pursuing justice. But he is not alone in his growing preoccupation with the case. Local journalist Roddy Mace has moved north from London to build a new life.

As Brindle and Mace begin to prise the secrets of the case from tight-lipped locals, their investigation leads first to the pillars of the community and finally to a local celebrity and fixture of the nation's Saturday night TV. 'Lovely Larry' Lister has his own hiding places, and his own dark tastes.

A tour de force in plotting and atmosphere, Turning Blue is a terrifying and gripping tale of hidden lives, and hidden deaths.

• Author
• Benjamin Myers

• Format
• paperback

• Publisher
• Moth Publishing

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781911356004

• Genres
• fiction, crime, thriller, novels, mystery

• Release date
• 2016