Jennifer Ness

Did you hear? Big landslip over by Ercol. Last night. The road into Gully's closed off. They found a body. Got police tape. All that stuff. They only do that for murder, don't they? Murder! A body has been uncovered in a mudslide just outside the village of Andwiston. In the pub they talk of murder, but Dan — sometime mechanic, constant drunk — is finding it hard to sift through his jumbled memories. Watching him from the dark is Lorna, a lost...