Fast by the HornsFrom the Hawthornden Prize winning author of An Olive Grove in Ends, a powerful story of broken dreams and divided loyalties Bristol, 1980. In the tight knit neighbourhood of St. Pauls, 14 year old Jabari is proud of his position as the only son of revered community leader Ras Levi. Raised in a world of sus laws and council neglect, Jabari finds hope in his Rastafari faith, which offers the comforting vision that one day he and his fellow believers

by a stranger who seems to know him very well

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid

and his evenings lazing by the fire

and intertwines historic and modern plots

Now shes decided Jess will help

sometimes perilous and always unpredictable

Confronting adulthood with high wit and low behaviour against contemporary political and social turmoil

but Kingston starts one of his own and soon finds himself on a trail of clues that wind back down the centuries

After the discovery of a body in the popular swimming baths

And while Maeve and Josh try to gather the evidence they need

They can agree on treachery

an investigative journalist blows the cover of the sensational waking