Alex Grecian's The Black Country sees the Scotland Yard Murder Squad return in a gruesome historical thriller.
Read 'The Black Country Scotland Yard Murder Squad Book 2' by Alex Grecian available from Rakuten Kobo. Sign up today and get £3 off your first purchase. Alex is the author of the long-running and critically acclaimed comic book series Proof, and he lives in Topeka, Kansas, with his wife and son.
Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twe. Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Wont give much away as it's a teccie crime series, even though the murderer. Download app for iOS Download app for Android. In London, when Australian gangsters disguised as 'Bobbies' rob British criminals, the panicked British mobsters seek an alliance with the Scotland Yard in order to eliminate the foreign competition and return things to 'normal'.
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.
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. . . .
From The Yard author Alex Grecian comes The Black Country- a horrifying journey into the darkest backwoods of Victorian Britain. The Black Country is guaranteed to appeal to fans of recent Ripper TV dramas (BBC's Ripper Street, ITV's Whitechapel) as well as Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films.
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'Will keep you riveted from page one' Jeffrey Deaver
'Outstanding. If Charles Dickens isn't somewhere clapping his hands for this, Wilkie Collins surely is.' The New York Times Book Review
Alex Grecian has worked for an ad agency on accounts for Harley-Davidson, Cub Foods, and The Great American Smokeout, before returning to writing fiction full time and raising his son. Alex is the author of the long-running and critically acclaimed comic book series Proof, and he lives in Topeka, Kansas, with his wife and son. The Yard is his first novel.
Alex Grecian is an American author of historical mystery novels, and is also a comic book writer. He writes the Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad series and is the co-creator of the comic book series Proof. Growing up, Alex read all the classics by authors like C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe, before discovering crime fiction and reading authors like Graham Greene, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald and John D. MacDonald. He has been nominated for several awards, but has won the State Library of Kansas’ Kansas Notable Book Award for his novels The Yard and The Black Country.
Alex Grecian started out as a comic book writer. His first published graphic novel was Seven Sons, which was based on a Chinese folktale entitled The Five Brothers from 300 A.D. His debut as a novelist came in 2012 with the novel The Yard, beginning his Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad historical mystery series. Below is a list of Alex Grecian’s books in order of when they were first published:
Publication Order of Proof Graphic Novels
| Goatsucker | (2008) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| The Company of Men | (2008) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| Thunderbirds Are Go! | (2009) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| Julia | (2010) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| Blue Fairies | (2010) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| Endangered | (2011) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
Publication Order of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad Books
| The Yard | (2012) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| The Black Country | (2013) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| The Blue Girl | (2013) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| The Devil's Workshop | (2014) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| The Harvest Man | (2015) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
| Lost and Gone Forever | (2016) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
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| Seven Sons | (2006) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Saint of Wolves and Butchers | (2018) | siehe Buchbeschreibung und bei Amazon kaufen |
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Alex Grecian Synopsis:Seven Sons is a graphic novel by Alex Grecian with art by Riley Rossmo. During the mid-19th century, Seven identical Chinese brothers come to the United States to take part in the Gold Rush. When two small children fall through the ice into a river, Brother #1 tries to rescue them by trying to swallow the entire river. Unfortunately, he can’t hold it and the children end up drowning. The people of the town are outraged and try to get back at the brothers, but each of the brothers are able to use their amazing abilities in order to save #1’s life.
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