Touchstone
September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Featuring: Luther
368 pages ISBN: 1451673094 EAN: 9781451673098 Kindle: B0061Q5PZ2 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A brilliant standalone crime novel and prequel to the acclaimed BBC series by the showβs creator and sole writer: βLuther is to crime fiction what his historical counterpart was to religion.β¦Gripping, taut fiction by a new master in the genreβ (Guillermo del Toro). Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. Heβs a murder detective with an extraordinary case clearance rate. Heβs 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 badβnot 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 shouldnβtβthings well beyond the limits of the law. Edgar Award-winning writer Neil Cross has created one of the most compelling characters in modern crime fictionβa 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 βBritainβs own Stephen King.β