PublishedPenguin, April 2014 |
ISBN9780143571483 |
FormatSoftcover, 272 pages |
Dimensions20cm × 12.9cm × 1.7cm |
Everyone is hooked on something. It's not that easy to kick the money habit. After the global meltdown forces London's bankers to go cold turkey, people look elsewhere for a quick quid: the old-fashioned East End. So when investigator Catherine Berlin gets an anonymous tip-off about a local loan shark, the case seems straightforward - until her informant is found floating in the Limehouse Basin.
In another part of town, a notorious doctor is murdered in his surgery, and his entire stock of pharmaceutical heroin stolen. An unorthodox copper is assigned to the case, and Berlin finds herself a reluctant collaborator in a murder investigation. Now Berlin has seven days to find out who killed her informant, why the police are hounding her and, most urgently of all, where to find a new - and legal - supply of the drug she can't survive without.
