First Cut

<p>Published in the UK as <em>Caedmon's Song</em> this is a gripping standalone thriller from <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Peter Robinson.</p><p>On a balmy June night Kirsten a young university student is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked.</p><p>When she awakens in the hospital she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then slowly painfully details reveal themselves--dreams of two figures one white and one black hovering over her; snatches of a strange and haunting song; the unfamiliar texture of a rough and deadly hand . . .</p><p>In another part of the country Martha Browne arrives in a Yorkshire seaside town posing as an author doing research for a book. But her research is of a particularly macabre variety. Who is she hunting with such deadly determination? And why?</p><p><em>The First Cut</em> is a vivid and compelling psychological thriller from the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector Banks series.</p><p> </p>