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Dead Ground (Washington Poe 4)
M. W. Craven

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused - he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp - but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.

As Poe and the socially awkward programmer Tilly Bradshaw delve deeper into the case, they are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions: despite being heavily vetted for a high-profile job, why does nothing in the victim's background check out? Why was a small ornament left at the murder scene - and why did someone on the investigation team steal it? And what is the connection to a flawlessly executed bank heist three years earlier, a heist where nothing was taken . . .

GENRE
Crime;
Police Procedural; Thriller

UK PUBLICATION
June 2021

​Praise

​WINNER OF THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2022

"M. W. Craven is one of the best crime writers working today. Dead Ground 
is a cracking puzzle, beautifully written, with characters you'll be behind every step of the way. It's his best yet."
Stuart Turton

"Dead Ground is both entertaining and engaging with great characters and 
storyline. I loved this first dip into the world of Tilly and Poe!"
B. A. Paris

Also by M. W. Craven

Washington Poe series
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Other books by M. W. Craven
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Rights Sales for DEAD GROUND

Czech Republic: Dobrovsky
​Denmark: Jentas
Estonia: Kirjastus Pegasus
Greece:
Harlenic Hellas
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Japan: Hayakawa
​Netherlands: Luitingh-Sijthoff
Spain: Roca Editorial

​Sweden: Modernista
UK & Commonwealth: Constable & Robinson

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