Dead Flowers

Nick Sharman’s daughter Judith has returned to Scotland and nothing will tempt him back into the business again… unless it’s Ray Miller. Miller, a Lottery rollover double-jackpot winner, wants to find the wife who left him. This should be a simple task for Sharman, giving him easy money and evidence for Judith that he’s trying to get his life together.

When Miller’s wife, Sharon, turns out to be a whore addicted to heroin supplied by her pimp, Sharman’s fate appears to be sealed. The news of Miller’s new-found wealth has brought out south London’s worst villains, the most unpleasant of whom – Adult Baby Albert and Mr Freeze – decide the best way to get what they want is to use Sharon to prise it from Miller. And Sharman, the patsy, is primed to take the fall.

• Fifteenth in the successful Nick Sharman crime series
• The series was popularised by Clive Owen who starred in the TV series based on the books
• The entire TV series is available on DVD
• Writing as Lee Martin, Mark Timlin’s recent book Gangster’s Wives has sold over 30,000 copies
• Reset with a sharp new series cover design
• Shortlisted for the UEA Crime Fiction Award 2019
• Nicola Monaghan is a previous winner of the Betty Trask Award, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Prize, and the Waverton Good Read
• First novel in new cold case series, for fans of Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories and British TV Dramas like Unforgotten and Line of Duty
• Inspired by true stories from two decades of history
• Dual timeline in 1970s and modern day woven intricately together and culminating in a satisfying denouement