The Horse with My NameDan Starkey international man of inaction rides again. How far can he fall this time? Ex journalist Dan Starkey is stuck in a grimy Belfast bedsit. His life is a disaster, and his only solace is the pub round the corner (and the last can in his hand). He needs to get out more (particularly since the sessions at Relate with his wife Patricia have been cancelled and she's hooked up with new man Clive). He really, really needs something to get his teeth

As her own governors plot treason

a vicious eco-war between the Welsh and a multi-national mining conglomerate

The Last Kingdom series goes from strength to strength with Uhtred becoming ever more interesting in so many ways a modern hero

willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for a helping hand with plum jobs

the family cataclysm catapults the nanny (who has secrets of her own) into a position of unnatural control

And it happens so fast

The politics of the court and the mob is the new battleground

Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new

And it is into this terrain that an eccentric

Ben Aaronovitch

to survive until Spring

is seeking a murderer with a talent for death