Promotional Information

The first book in the acclaimed William Dougal crime series, from Richard & Judy bestselling author and CWA Dagger winner, Andrew Taylor.

About the Author

Andrew Taylor has worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, librarian, labourer and publisher's reader. He has written many crime novels as well as children's books and lives with his wife and their two children in the Forest of Dean, on the borders of England and Wales.

Reviews

'Lively and entertaining' -- Times Literary Supplement 'An amusing romp' -- Sunday Telegraph 'This one's a maverick...[with] a professional touch unusual in a first novel' -- Irish Times 'A rather unusual book ... with sharply etched characters and a rather shocking amorality' -- The New York Times Book Review