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Rose of Jericho, February 2026
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Red Rabbit, August 2024
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The Saint of Wolves and Butchers, April 2018
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Lost and Gone Forever, May 2016
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The Devil's Workshop, April 2015
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The Devil's Workshop, June 2014
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The Black Country, May 2014
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The Black Country, June 2013
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The Yard, April 2013
Paperback / e-Book

THE BLACK COUNTRY
By: Alex Grecian

Berkley
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
Featuring: Inspector Walter Day; Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith
400 pages
ISBN: 0425267733
EAN: 9780425267738
Kindle: B00B7NPS1U
Paperback / e-Book
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Hardcover (June 2013)

Mystery

The British Midlands. Inhabitants call it the “Black Country”—and with good reason. Bad things happen there.

When three members of a prominent family disappear from the Midlands—and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird’s nest—Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad is called in. But Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith have stepped into something much more bizarre and complicated than expected.

Superstitions abound in the intertwined histories of the villagers, including a local legend about a monster some claim to have seen. In addition, a mysterious epidemic is killing off the inhabitants, and the village itself is sinking into the coal mines below. Day and Hammersmith soon realize that they, too, are in over their heads. And the more they investigate, the more they fear that they may never be allowed to leave.