Londres, 1935. Geats travaille pour la police des Moeurs. Misanthrope et hargneux, il dirige la racaille de Soho selon un code moral élastique. Ses ruelles étroites sont peuplées de jazzmen, de bookmakers, de mafieux et de michetons. Aussi, lorsque le corps d'une prostitué est retrouvé au-dessus d'un club, les détectives de la criminelle se contentent de classer l'affaire comme un suicide. Geats, quant à lui, flaire déjà la piste d'un tueur pervers et insaisissable que l'on surnommera le Brigadier.
'Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer' CHRIS WHITAKER
'Crime writing of the highest quality' DAILY MAIL
It's 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs.
An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof.
For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery.
Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house.
Claire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale.
She finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband's disappearance: Dave Lander, whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer, and Teddy 'Mother' Nunn, a sociopathic, evangelising outlaw and top lieutenant in Billy Hill's underworld.
Drawn together through the years in the city's invisible web of crime and poverty, the fates of the broken families and violent men collide in 1958, as the West Indian community of Notting Hill's slums come under attack from thugs and Teddy Boys. For Addie, Claire, Dave and Mother, old scores will be settled and new dreams chased in the crucible of London's violent summer.
Praise for Dominic Nolan:
'Brings the obsessional dread of James Ellroy to 1940s London' IAN RANKIN
'Extraordinary...a career-defining performance' THE SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR
He writes like a dream - a dark, fevered, frenzied dream' HARRIET TYCE
'Deserves to be compared with the unforgettable James Ellroy' DAILY MAIL
'Savage, beautiful, mesmeric' CHRIS WHITAKER
'A stirringly ambitious novel.... Extraordinary' A. J. FINN
PEOPLE ARE BORN. MONSTERS ARE MADE.
'A dark tale that suggests Nolan is set to become Britain's Michael Connelly' Daily Mail
'Full of good twists' Independent - Books of the month.
A girl held captive her entire life
After a shocking discovery, the police must unravel a mystery that horrifies the nation.
A detective condemned as a criminal
Violently abducted while searching for a missing woman, D.S. Abigail Boone suffered retrograde amnesia - remembering nothing of her previous life. Defying the law to hunt those responsible, she now languishes behind bars.
A monster hiding in the shadows
In desperation, police turn to Boone - who fears a connection to the disappearance of a child three decades earlier...and a mysterious underworld figure whose name is spoken only in whispers.
Freed from prison, what will Boone sacrifice - and who must she become - to uncover the terrifying truth?
Epic, thrilling and beautifully written, AFTER DARK is a twisting masterpiece of crime fiction that fans of Ian Rankin, Tim Weaver, Belinda Bauer and Tana French will love.
'Tense and thrilling' Heat
'Thrilling, menacing and beautifully crafted. A must-read for crime fiction fans.' OLIVIA KIERNAN
'Gripping' Woman and Home
'So dark and gripping...really intelligent crime writing.' JO SPAIN
'I absolutely devoured it.' TREVOR WOOD
'Dark, thrilling and restlessly poetic...grips you by the throat and refuses to let go.' VICTORIA SELMAN
Praise for Dominic Nolan's debut PAST LIFE:
'A great story told with real poise' Simon Kernick, Sunday Times bestseller
'A book that grabs you and refuses to let go till the very end' Alex Gray
'Crime as it should be written...gripping, addictive, a thrill of a ride.' Jo Spain, international bestseller
'A beautifully written debut... this is a moving story, poignantly told.' Daily Mail
'This powerhouse novel is not for the fragile-hearted...one hell of a debut' Heat
'A smart, distinctive debut' Sunday Mirror
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A CRIME YOU CAN'T REMEMBER?
'BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' DAILY MAIL
'ONE HELL OF A DEBUT' HEAT
'A GREAT STORY TOLD WITH REAL POISE' SIMON KERNICK, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'GRABS YOU AND REFUSES TO LET GO TILL THE VERY END' ALEX GRAY
Detective Abigail Boone has been missing for four days when she is finally found.
Suffering retrograde amnesia, she is a stranger to her despairing husband and bewildered son.
Hopelessly lost in her own life, with no leads on her abduction, Boone's only instinct is to revisit the case she was investigating when she vanished: the baffling disappearance of a young woman, Sarah Still.
Defying her family and the police, Boone obsessively follows a deadly trail to uncover the shocking truth. But even if she finds Sarah, will Boone ever be the same again?
From a blistering new voice in crime fiction, PAST LIFE is a razor-sharp thriller perfect for fans of authors such as Ian Rankin, Tim Weaver, Susie Steiner, Joseph Knox and Peter May.
'GRABS YOU AND REFUSES TO LET GO TILL THE VERY END' ALEX GRAY
'A GREAT STORY TOLD WITH REAL POISE' SIMON KERNICK, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'AN ASTONISHING DEBUT' WOMAN'S OWN
'CRIME AS IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN...GRIPPING, ADDICTIVE, A THRILL OF A RIDE.' JO SPAIN international bestseller
'A SMART, DISTINCTIVE DEBUT' SUNDAY MIRROR
'I LOVED IT...IT'S TAUT, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND AT SOME POINTS THE TENSION IS ALMOST TOO MUCH TO BEAR.' HARRIET TYCE
'I REALLY LOVED THIS...A TWISTING, HEART-WRENCHING STORY WITH WONDERFULLY VIVID CHARACTERS' CLAIRE MCGOWAN
