Britain, August 1966, and the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are irrevocably bound up with this event and its consequences, which reverberate across three decades: an ambitious detective dragged into intrigues of corruption; a gutter press journalist with a nose for a nasty story; and a disaffected petty criminal pushed over the edge by a violent crime that haunts him. An epic story that looks at morality and corruption on both sides of the law and at the very heart of the state.

'Arnott's ability to powerfully resurrect an era is astonishing' Jimmy Boyle in the Guardian

The effortlessly cool new novel from Nicholas Blincoe - a tale of murder, beauty and passion set in the fashion world.

Jamie and Louise look more like twins than brother and sister. He is twenty and should be in college. She is twenty-three, a born diva and a desperately failing model. Jamie loves her whatever face she wears, whether she's charming, seductive or suicidal. But he also knows that she is the queen of deceit. Forced by Louise to tour Europe as part of the entourage of an ageing couturier, Jamie witnesses her career mysteriously re-igniting. Suddenly he is the brother of Europe's most talked-about model. But then he learns what they're talking about ...