Grey in the Dark

Too many people loved Kelly Rowland. One of them killed her, but was it the man in prison for her murder?

‘A thrilling finale’ Crime Review

‘A clever, witty plot… a delight to read’ Times

Gethin Grey is back in the game. His wife may have left him and he’s struggling with life as a single father, but now he’s got his biggest case in years.

The brutal murder of a young woman called Kelly Rowland has been the talk of the South Wales valleys. Even the conviction of a neighbour failed to stop the gossip.

There were too many other suspects still around, among them a pair of coppers: brother and sister.

So Gethin was delighted when Morgan’s family stumped up the money to pay him and his Last Resort Legals team to reinvestigate the case.

But when a new lead takes him undercover into a support group for recovering addicts, Gethin has to confront his own demons.

Moving from the former mining towns of the valleys to the shiny new waterfront developments of Cardiff, taking in adult puppet shows and piercing parlors, derelict mines and country clubs, Grey In The Dark lays bare a world in which sex and money collide and everyone has their secrets.

• Too many people loved Kelly Rowland. One of them killed her, but was it the man in prison for her murder?
• Highly contemporary private detective series, perfect for fans of noir fiction and crime thrillers, the novel will appeal to readers of Ian Rankin’s Rebus series (more than 20 million copies sold worldwide) and J.K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike novels
• In the second instalment in John Lincoln’s acclaimed Gethin Grey series, the Last Resort Legals team investigate another miscarriage of justice, taking them from post-industrial dereliction of the South Wales Valleys to the gated communities of the Cardiff docklands
• Fade to Grey was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and received critical acclaim across the national press, including glowing reviews in the Guardian, Times, Financial Times and Daily Mail
• John Lincoln is the Mail on Sunday crime critic and the author of the cult classics Into the Badlands and Bloody Valentine (reissued by Oldcastle Books in September 2021), as well as the acclaimed Cardiff Trilogy. His previous novels have been translated into 9 languages
• John has been interviewed on national TV (BBC 1, BBC 2 and Channel 5) for true crime documentaries about the miscarriage of justice he details in Bloody Valentine