A Bitter Taste: A Catherine Berlin Novel

Treachery becomes a habit.London is in the grip of a stifling heatwave.  The city has slowed to a claustrophobic shuffle; heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin suffers while working the lowest of investigations: matrimonial.The city's junkies are in the grip of a drought of a different kind.  Sonja Kvist, a strung-out ghost from Berlin's past, turns up on her doorstep.  Sonja's daughter is missing.  An unpaid debt leaves Berlin no choice but to take the case of the missing ten-year-old.Berlin is back, but soon the hunter becomes the hunted: corrupt detectives are on Berlin's tail chasing drugs she doesn't have, a young girl is murdered and the matrimonial case takes a fatal turn.  And the temperature keeps rising.'Annie Hauxwell has given us a heroine for our bleak new age. Catch the wave now, while it's building.' The Times'Tough, fast-paced and peopled with believable characters, this is crime fiction for the 21st century.' Sunday Canberra Times