Paperback: Long Way Home (2014) is a major new detective series set in England from the publishers of Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbo and Fred Vargas.
A migrant worker is burnt alive in a suburban garden shed and it soon becomes clear that the owners of the shed have something to hide. DI Zigic and DS Ferreira are called in from the underfunded Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit to investigate the murder.
But while DS Ferreira thinks they have found their killers, her boss, DI Zigic, is not so sure. It seems that some other people might have had good reason to see the victim dead: Andrus Tombak, slum landlord - witnesses say the two had fought; Clinton Renfrew, convicted arsonist, and EDL member; Fintan Maloney, landlord of Irish pub, Maloneys, where there is more on offer than just the beer; and any number of local thugs who, as ’employers’, abuse cheap foreign labour.
Zigic and Ferreira know all too well the problems that come with dealing with a community that has more reason than most not to trust the police, but when another migrant worker is attacked, tensions rapidly begin to rise as they search for their killer.
About the author: Eva Dolan is the alter ego of an Essex based copywriter and intermittently successful poker player. She blogs, she writes, she talks about herself in the third person and feels vaguely uncomfortable about it. Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger for unpublished authors when she was just a teenager, Long Way Home is her debut novel and the start of a major new crime series.
Rating: 5/5
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