Hireling's Tale

Jo Bannister

Apr 1999 · Pan

About this ebook

Two people are hiring out their services in Castlemere - a prostitute with only hours to live, and a hired assassin with only hours to make his kill . . .When the naked body of a young prostitute is found on a narrowboat on the Castlemere Canal, police enquiries focus on the nearby Barbican Hotel. For with a sales conference in progress there's no shortage of men who could have met the girl there. But soon Superintendent Shapiro and his team have a great deal more to contend with. For the dead woman was not the only person to have hired herself out that night: a paid assassin is at large - and he is gunning for the conference organiser Philip Kendall.

About the author

Jo Bannister was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, and grew up in Birmingham, Nottingham and Bangor, Northern Ireland. After leaving school at sixteen, she joined the County Down Spectator as office junior, leaving as editor in 1988 to pursue her career as an author. She has won several awards for her writing, including recognition from the Royal Society of Arts and the British Press Awards.