John Creasey (New Blood) 2017

Daniel Cole
Ragdoll
shortlisted
Trapeze

A gruesome murder sets William ‘Woolf’ Fawkes, a cop with a troubled past, and his team on a breathless search for a particularly cruel but cunning perpetrator who taunts them in imaginative ways. Clockwork plotting and a relentless lace makes this a major page-turner.