King of the Streets by John Baker

Sam Turner is helping the woman from Scottish Widows track the murderer of her husband and is investigating the death of a teenage runaway.

As a look at the seamier side of the underlife in a prosperous city, the author spares no-one. Indeed he suggests the police force is a corrupt body taking bribes and turning a blind eye to many crimes. This is not a book for the squeamish but has its own moral tale. Baker gets better with every book. CADS.

Steeped in the hard-boiled genre of Chandler and Elroy. Brilliant. Peterborough Evening Telegraph.

I took King of the Streets away with me and enjoyed it immensely. The best of anybody’s I’ve read in a long time. Well done. Stuart Pawson, novelist.