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THE BLACK COUNTRY

Alex Grecian

A Novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad

Scotland Yard's Murder Squad returns, in the stunning new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestseller The Yard.

The British Midlands. It's called the 'Black Country' for a reason. Bad things happen there.

When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village - and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird's nest - the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard's new Murder Squad. Fresh off the grisly 1889 murders of The Yard, Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, but they have no idea what they're about to get into. The villagers have intense, intertwined histories. Everybody bears a secret. Superstitions abound. And the village itself is slowly sinking into the mines beneath it.

Not even the arrival of forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley seems to help. In fact, the more the three of them investigate, the more they realize they may never be allowed to leave. . . .

Alex Grecian is the national bestselling author of The Yard and the long-running and critically acclaimed graphic novel series Proof.

Praise for The Yard:
"Outstanding. If Charles Dickens isn't somewhere clapping his hands for this, Wilkie Collins surely is." - The New York Times Book Review
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Published 2013-05-01 by Putnam