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The gripping new thriller featuring DCI Diana Walker: a gruesome murder leads Diana into the heart of Sheffield's seedy underbelly

*Praise for Nina Bhadreshwar*

'One of the most original and exciting new voices in crime fiction’ – David Peace

‘Everything I love in a crime novel – passion, interesting and rooted characters and a great story’ – Ann Cleeves

'A complete page turner, tense and gripping, complex themes and a great heroine' – Reeta Chakrabarti

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A BRUTAL MURDER

Sheffield detective DCI Diana Walker is called to a gruesome scene – the charred remains of a man have been discovered, showing signs of torture. The body was abandoned on the wild moors of the Peak District, but he wasn’t killed there.

A LIFE GONE UP IN FLAMES

An arson fire in Sheffield reveals the site of another murder, this time of a young woman, and DCI Diana Walker finds herself investigating two brutal killings.

A DARK TRUTH

When the victim’s identities are revealed, Diana searches their seemingly mundane lives for answers. Surprising connections to Sheffield’s criminal underworld reveal webs of corruption at the city’s heart, and something far more deadly.

Critics Review

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PRAISE FOR NINA BHADRESHWAR

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'A complete page turner, tense and gripping, complex themes and a great heroine' – Reeta Chakrabarti

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‘This terrific first novel has everything I love in a crime novel – passion, interesting and rooted characters and a great story’ – Ann Cleeves

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‘One of the most startling and compelling debuts I've read, and heralds the arrival of Nina Bhadreshwar as one of the most original and exciting new voices in crime fiction’ – David Peace

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‘A grimly gorgeous novel’ – Tom Benn

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‘Fierce, unflinching and enthralling’ – Simon Lelic

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‘A procedural with a social conscience, this page-turner illuminates the tensions as multi-cultural Sheffield, as well as the British violence against the Kikuyu people in 1950s Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising’ – The Bookseller

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The Day of the Roaring is a brilliant multi-layered mystery that cajoles us into some very dark places, but leaves us seeing our world with very fresh eyes. Anyone who doesn't believe that crime fiction can deal with hard stuff at the same time as keeping us totally entertained needs to read this’ – William Shaw

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‘Nina Bhadreshwar's debut novel, The Day of the Roaring, impressed me with its vivid settings, intricate narrative, and exceptional details’ – Kwei Jones Quartey

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‘A multi-layered novel which explores far more than your average police procedural’ – i Paper

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