BrokenA brilliant and utterly original debut novel. Now also an award winning film. You thought your neighbours were bad? Wait till you meet the Oswalds. They're crass, cruel and seemingly untouchable. Until, that is, they go one step too far and the results begin to tear an entire community apart. Skunk Cunningham is an eleven year old girl in a coma. She has a loving dad, an absent mother and a brother who plays more XBox than is good for him. She also

The mystery deepens as Jacquot begins his investigation

while his mum is in hospital back home

Brunetti will have to once again face the blurred line that runs between the criminal and the non-criminal

But when there's a clutch of coppers

his guilt over his sister's death at the hands of her husband

a young squire devoted to the virtues of chivalry

where their mother once worked

Recalling Michael Connelly's taut storytelling and James Patterson's searing narrative twists

registered as another mans wife

Increasingly

But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and much to Marks astonishment doesnt seem interested in revenge

'Chilling - a must-read' Peter James