About this ebook
John Ray is called to the scene of a violent murder. The victim is an old associate of his father, local crime boss Tony Ray. There’s no obvious motive for the crime, but everybody agrees on one thing: don’t tell the police.
John, the charismatic, Cambridge-educated white sheep of the Ray family, has always refused to be part of his father’s business. But he’s also a bit of a maverick, with a foot in both worlds, and he’s not quite as white as he would like: exactly the kind of person you’d want to investigate an underworld murder.
The fast-paced search for the killer takes John Ray back to events twenty years ago, and to another, even more heinous crime. It’s a gripping ride, but also a painful one for John personally, and he doesn't really know what he’s looking for. Until it’s too late.
Plus, he's not the only one looking...
FATHER AND SON is the second crime thriller in the John Ray / LS9 series.
It can be read as a stand-alone novel.
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NOTE ON THE TEXT: Chapter 17 of this novel includes a letter written by a child. The letter contains various grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. The are used deliberately by the author.
About the author
JOHN BARLOW was born in 1967 in West Yorkshire, England. He left school to become a musician, playing piano and organ in bars and clubs. He then studied English Literature at Cambridge University, followed by a PhD in Language Acquisition at Hull University. He held teaching posts in a number of universities, before moving to Spain to write full-time, and currently lives in the Galician city of A Coruna with his wife and two sons.
He won the Paris Review’s prestigious Discovery Prize for his first published story, Eating Mammals, and went on to publish fiction and non-fiction with HarperCollins, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 4th Estate and various others in the UK, US, Australia, Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain and Poland. He has also written for The Washington Post, Penthouse, The Big Issue, Departures, and for various food and wine publications. His current project, the John Ray/LS9 crime mystery series, is set in Leeds and follows the life of John Ray, the half-Spanish son of crime boss Antonio ‘Tony’ Ray.
