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Also by Neil Cross:

Captured, February 2015
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Luther: The Calling, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

Luther: The Calling
Neil Cross

Touchstone
September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Featuring: Luther
368 pages
ISBN: 1451673094
EAN: 9781451673098
Kindle: B0061Q5PZ2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller

A brilliant standalone crime novel and prequel to the acclaimed BBC series by the show’s creator and sole writer: “Luther is to crime fiction what his historical counterpart was to religion.…Gripping, taut fiction by a new master in the genre” (Guillermo del Toro). Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. He’s a murder detective with an extraordinary case clearance rate. He’s obsessive, instinctive, and intense. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. And yet there are rumors that Luther is bad—not corrupt, not on the take, but tormented. He seethes with a hidden fury that at times he can barely control. Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, making him do things he shouldn’t—things well beyond the limits of the law. Edgar Award-winning writer Neil Cross has created one of the most compelling characters in modern crime fiction—a man who may be a force for good, or hell-bent on self-destruction. For fans of the award-winning series starring Emmy-nominee Idris Elba, and for all lovers of crime fiction, Luther is a compelling, compulsively readable novel by the writer hailed by The Guardian as “Britain’s own Stephen King.”

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3 comments posted.

Re: Luther: The Calling

This book sounds like one where you won't put it down until the last page is written, and perhaps you set it aside for a while and then read it again finding something new each time.
(C Culp 6:15pm September 5, 2013)

I haven't seen the series and might try the book if it is not too dark.
(Clare O'Beara 10:14am September 6, 2013)

Because I only get limited Canadian television where I live, I'm unfamiliar with the series. It must be good if it has that great of a following, so I would love to read the book, and find out how the series came to be. What an exciting way to start out my Fall reading!! Knowing that this book could be made into a movie is an added plus!!
(Peggy Roberson 11:22am September 6, 2013)