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 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 daughter is missing. An unpaid debt leaves Berlin no choice but to take the case of the missing ten-year-old.  Berlin is back. And soon the hunter becomes the corrupt detectives are on Berlin's tail chasing drugs she doesn't have, a young girl is murdered and the matrimonial case unravels. And the temperature keeps rising. A Bitter Taste is addictive, fast-paced crime fiction spiked with grit and grunge.  'Fast-paced and gripping and just perfect for the crime-fiction junkie.' Geelong Advertiser 'Tough, fast-paced and peopled with believable characters, this is crime fiction for the 21st century.' Sunday Canberra TimesPraise for In Her Blood'A promising new series.' Financial Times (UK)'A full-throttle page-turner.' West Australian