Begars Abbey - V.L. Valentine Crime is unsurpassed' Michael Connelly 'A

is unsurpassed' Michael Connelly 'A gorgeous prose stylist' Stephen King 'No argument: James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American novelists' Daily Mail'The greatest crime writer currently at work' Spectator'The reigning champ of nostalgia noir' New York Times'Masterly' Sunday Telegraph

spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about'No punches pulled

Is she a clairvoyant

and even a state of grace

she thought they were the good guys

Begars Abbey - V.L. Valentine Crime is unsurpassed' Michael Connelly 'AA dark gothic delight' JANICE HALLETT, author of THE TWYFORD CODE'Inventive, lavish, twisty will keep you guessing until the very end' ALISON LITTLEWOOD, author of MISTLETOEWinter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing left. Her mother is dead, she has no prospects, and she cannot afford the rent. But as she goes through her mother's things, Sam finds a stack of hidden letters that reveal a family