GREY HOOD

<p><strong style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Following a murder a dizzying crescendo of tense exciting action reaches a jaw-dropping climax...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Liverpool property magnate Damon Slate is found early one Sunday morning wandering out of the Queensway Tunnel holding a red high-heeled shoe. He seems to be experiencing a serious case of amnesia.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Heavily pregnant DI Beth Krush is tasked with this apparently straightforward matter. But Slate's wife Iris is nowhere to be found and the detective suspects her husband isn't telling the truth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When she finds Iris's diary it speaks of a long history of mental illness. The morbid entries obsess over love and death.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Meanwhile Krush's half-sister DI Eleanor Rose attends a murder scene in a particularly unsavoury part of the city. Organised Crime want to write off the nameless victim's death as part of a gang war. Only he too is clutching a scarlet high-heeled shoe.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The detectives' cases are clearly related but the estranged sisters would rather they weren't. Can they put aside their differences and unravel the events of a fateful night?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Or like the warring gangs of the city itself will their feud escalate and tensions reach breaking point?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>GREY HOOD is a dark atmospheric and meticulously crafted noir crime novel that will have you glued to the page. It is the third book in a gripping series of detective novels set by James Davidson in his home city of Liverpool. The others are OUTCAST SISTER and ROUGH SLEEPER.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(118 119 121 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Also look out for THE OTHER DETECTIVE the author's terrific standalone historical mystery.</span></p>