Black Rabbit Summer

Description

Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that SUMMER. Long, stiflingly hot, lazy days stretched ahead of him. THEN SHE CALLED. It was Nicole. 'Listen, Pete . . . you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground . . . I thought we could all meet up . . . You know, for old times' sake.' BUT, where there are old times there are old tensions. And as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives . . . 'A masterly writer, and this book would put many authors of 'grown up' detective fiction to shame' Mail on Sunday 'A compulsive, atmosperic mystery' Sunday Times 'Gripping, disturbing . . . Brilliant' Sunday Express

Kevin Brooks has written nine children's novels and has won several awards including Canongate Prize for New Writing, Branford Boase Award, Kingston Youth Book Award, North East Book Award, Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis Jury Prize, Buxtehude Bulle, Golden Bookworm. A Dance of Ghosts is the first of his adult novels. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, Sue. Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter, Devon, and he studied in Birmingham and London. He has worked in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before - happily - giving it all up to write books. Kevin is the award-winning author of eight novels and lives in North Yorkshire. 'Kevin Brooks just gets better and better, and given that he started off brilliant, that leaves one scratching around for superlatives' - Sunday Telegraph . 'He's an original. And he writes one hell of a story' - Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now 'A masterly writer' - Mail on Sunday

'Praise for Kevin Brooks: 'He's an original. And he writes one hell of a story' -- Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now (on Being) 'Watch this guy, he's good' -- Melvin Burgess, author of Junk (on Martyn Pig) '... you want to tell everyone how good it is' -- Sunday Times (on Lucas)' Various '... this credible, violent thriller pulls together all its apparent inconsistencies in a revealing resolution. Unmissable' - Tina Massey, Carousel 'Complex and involving, this is his [Brooks's] best book since the wonderful Lucas, and it deserves every success' Bookseller 'A masterly writer, and this book would put many authors of "grown up" detective fiction to shame' Mail on Sunday 'A compulsive, atmospheric mystery' Sunday Times 'Gripping, disturbing ... brilliant' Sunday Express 'A cracking story ... grips like a vice' Guardian