Everyone would kill for their fifteen minutes of fame...
A Premiership footballer is shot dead in cold blood on a busy London
street, and a country is gripped by terror. Who is behind this apparently
motiveless killing - and who's next in the firing line?
Jack Garrett is determined to find out. A small-time journalist who's left
behind his Lancashire roots for the glitz and glamour - and seediness and
squalor - of the capital, he's convinced this is no celebrity stalker.
Aided and abetted by DC Laura McGanity, desperately trying to juggle police
life with motherhood and her feelings for Jack, the trail takes them back
to Jack's home town of Turner's Fold - and his past.
What's the connection between the recent murder and the death of a young
girl 10 years before?
Conspiracy, revenge and the high price of fame all combine in this stunning
debut from a dazzling new voice in crime fiction.
Born above a shoe shop in the mid-1960s, Neil spent most of his childhood
in Wakefield in West Yorkshire as his father pursued a career in the shoe
trade. This took Neil to Bridlington in his teens, where he failed all his
exams and discovered that doing nothing soon turns into long-term
unemployment. Re-inventing himself, Neil returned to education in his 20s,
qualified as a solicitor when he was 30, and now spends his days in the
courtroom and his evenings writing crime fiction.
Beverly Barton
Close Enough to Kill
