Dead People by Ewart Hutton (English) Paperback Book

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DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick, returns in the CWA shortlisted series blowing fresh life into crime fiction

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DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick, returns in the CWA shortlisted series blowing fresh life into crime fictionDS Glyn Capaldi, exiled to the big empty middle of Wales to atone for past sins in Cardiff, is called in to investigate a human skeleton that has been uncovered during the excavations for a wind farm in a remote valley. The body is missing its head and its hands. Identity erasure or a ritual killing? Glyn's assertion that there must be a local connection is overruled by his superiors, They believe that the body has been transported and dumped, a theory that gains support when additional bodies start to pile up. But Capaldi is unconvinced, and sets out to prove that there is someone within the local community capable of achieving the levels of cold and manipulative brutality that have been demonstrated.

Notes

The 2nd novel in the series featuring DS Glyn Capaldi, a half-Welsh, half-Italian maverick. Follows on from Good People, which was shortlisted for the CWA's John Creasey Prize.

Author Biography

Ewart Hutton was born and raised in and around Glasgow before slipping south to university in Manchester, and then on to diverse occupations in London. He has won numerous awards and prizes for his radio plays which have been produced for BBC Radio 4, RTE, and Radio Clyde. His stage play The Making of Forfar Athletic's Austrian Supporters Club won the joint Traverse Theatre and Scottish Television Enterprise's Comedy Play Competition, and his play Letters from Ezra was a joint winner of the Croydon Warehouse Theatre's International Playwriting Festival. He now lives on the Welsh Marches with his wife Annie. Good People is his first novel.

Review

'More stings in the tail than a bag of scorpions' Val McDermid

Long Description

DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick, returns in the CWA shortlisted series blowing fresh life into crime fiction DS Glyn Capaldi, exiled to the big empty middle of Wales to atone for past sins in Cardiff, is called in to investigate a human skeleton that has been uncovered during the excavations for a wind farm in a remote valley. The body is missing its head and its hands. Identity erasure or a ritual killing? Glyn's assertion that there must be a local connection is overruled by his superiors, They believe that the body has been transported and dumped, a theory that gains support when additional bodies start to pile up. But Capaldi is unconvinced, and sets out to prove that there is someone within the local community capable of achieving the levels of cold and manipulative brutality that have been demonstrated.

Review Quote

'More stings in the tail than a bag of scorpions' Val McDermid

Feature

* The second novel in the DS Glyn Capaldi series. Half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick. * Good People has been shortlisted for the CWA's John Creasey Prize 2012. * Featuring a detective every bit as cussed and unpredictable as DI Jack Frost. Competition: The Hollow Men; Victim Without A Face (A Fabian Risk Thriller); The Rat Stone Serenade; Rope Enough (The Romney And Marsh Files Book 1). Stuart MacBride;Val McDermid; Ian Rankin; Peter May; Val McDermid; Rob McCarthy; Stefan Ahnhem; Denzil Meyrick; Oliver Tidy;

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DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick, returns in the CWA shortlisted series blowing fresh life into crime fiction DS Glyn Capaldi, exiled to the big empty middle of Wales to atone for past sins in Cardiff, is called in to investigate a human skeleton that has been uncovered during the excavations for a wind farm in a remote valley. The body is missing its head and its hands. Identity erasure or a ritual killing? Glyn's assertion that there must be a local connection is overruled by his superiors, They believe that the body has been transported and dumped, a theory that gains support when additional bodies start to pile up. But Capaldi is unconvinced, and sets out to prove that there is someone within the local community capable of achieving the levels of cold and manipulative brutality that have been demonstrated. Gold title * The second novel in the DS Glyn Capaldi series. Half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick.* Good People has been shortlisted for the CWA's John Creasey Prize 2012.* Featuring a detective every bit as cussed and unpredictable as DI Jack Frost. Competition: R.D. Wingfield; Val McDermid, Stuart MacBride; Ian Rankin

Details ISBN0007478240 Author Ewart Hutton Year 2014 ISBN-10 0007478240 ISBN-13 9780007478248 Media Book Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.92 Pages 400 Format Paperback Language English UK Release Date 2014-01-30 Illustrator Robin Glasser Birth 1949 Affiliation San Diego State University Position Professor of English Qualifications PhD Publication Date 2014-01-30 Imprint HarperCollins Alternative 9780007478255 Audience General AU Release Date 2014-01-19 NZ Release Date 2014-02-04 We've got this

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