The Strangest Criminals

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Welcome to Public Unrest: part cult part crime syndicate all chaos.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sally Li didn't mean to become a key player in the magical underworld. She just wanted to grow her weird glowing plants in peace. But in the city of Strange-a seaside town with more secrets than seagulls-peace is in short supply.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sal cultivates Tinker a rare memory-meddling plant grown for Public Unrest: a secretive enchantment-fuelled crime syndicate hidden beneath the city. Its network is everywhere-through laundrette spin cycles bakery ovens and broom cupboards in takeaway shops-and it runs on a potent mix of magic tech and ruthless charm.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To the outside world Sal is just another StrangeEats delivery rider. But underground she's Fix: the Orchard Manager growing the most valuable (and volatile) product in the Family's supply chain. She's protected surveilled and suspiciously well-treated. Which means she's either very important-or dangerously expendable.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When a turf war brews and Sal's chosen family-her girlfriend Lucy and her flatmate Matti-get tangled in the fallout she's forced to confront how deep she's in and who's really calling the shots. Is she building something worthwhile or just tending the roots of a new kind of cult?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Set in a world where spells are bought online and secret doorways open through household appliances The Strangest Criminals is a sharp funny and subversive crime fantasy about loyalty found family and the cost of choosing the wrong kind of magic. Perfect for fans of Neverwhere Rivers of London and The Thursday Murder Club-with a rebellious heart and a criminally good sense of humour. </span></p><p></p><p></p>