The Black Country

Alex Grecian

mei 2013 · Scotland Yard's Murder Squad Boek 2 · Penguin Random House Audio · Verteld door Toby Leonard Moore

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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. . . .

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Alex Grecian is the national bestselling author of the Scotland Yard's Murder Squad series, as well as of the long-running and critically acclaimed graphic novel series Proof and Rasputin. Grecian lives in the Midwest with his wife and son and is working on the next novel of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad.

Toby Leonard Moore was born in 1981 in Sydney, Australia. He attended St. Virgil's College, a private Roman Catholic Academy in Hobart, Tasmania, and graduated from Sydney's prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2005. Moore has a number of Australian and American television credits, having appeared in Murder in the Outback, The Pacific, Daredevil, White Collar, Dollhouse, and John Wick. His narration work includes Alex Grecian novels The Black Country and The Yard, Ghost of a Chance by Simon Green, The Radleys by Matt Haig, and The Profession by Steven Pressfield.