Hannah, a disgraced former cop, struggles to make ends meet as a burger-flipper in South London, where she’s notably bad at her job. However, her ambition to become a private investigator drives her to take on any case, no matter how small. As she navigates her new path, her determination and skills may reveal that there's more to her than meets the eye, setting the stage for intriguing investigations and personal growth.
Innovative and cutting-edge, this collection features Liza Cody's crime stories written between 2003 and 2021, showcasing her unique storytelling style. Among the tales, two are making their English debut, adding fresh perspectives to the genre.
Seema, a passionate gardener and dreamer, enjoys a comfortable life with her best friend until a chance encounter with a captivating older man during a girls' night out changes everything. He introduces her to a realm of wealth and sophistication that challenges her perceptions and desires, pushing her to explore new possibilities beyond her safe existence.
"Borderland Apocrypha is centered around the collective histories of Mexican lynchings following the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and the subsequent erasures, traumas, and state-sanctioned violences committed towards communities of color in the present day. Cody's debut collection responds to the destabilized, hostile landscapes and silenced histories via an experimental poetic that invents and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin, the page, and the book's axis in a resistance, a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. Part autohistoria, part docupoetic, part visual monument, part myth-making, Borderland Apocrypha exhumes the past in order to work toward survival, reckoning, and future- building"--
The story follows Lady Bag as she emerges from prison, joyfully reuniting with her friends and her cherished greyhound, Electra. This reunion highlights themes of friendship and loyalty, setting the stage for Lady Bag's new journey as she navigates life outside of confinement.
Anna Lee is back on a case. It seems like just a routine matter—a con man who's skipped town with his partner's money. But the trail quickly unwinds from the seedy byways of London to a deceptively peaceful rustic village, where Anna makes an unexpected and gruesome discovery: a corpse, dead for several weeks, with a bolt from a crossbow piercing its side. Driven to find the link between the merely missing and the foully murdered, amid an unfamiliar world of city princes and country poachers, Anna plunges into a quest that grows deadlier as it becomes more mystifying. For though he moves slowly, the Stalker kills swiftly...
The 2nd Classic Anna Lee MysteryOn a routine watch-and-follow job, Anna Lee is abducted with a hysterical teenager."With her second Anna Lee novel, Liza Cody has cleared a space for a vintage series on the crime fiction bookshelves." Cosmopolitan"Wonderfully alive, truly tense. A winner." The Times
Anna Lee finds herself catapulted into the flamboyant rock world of Shona Una. Protecting a rock star on tour is hard enough at the best of times, but a hard job is made impossible when Anna has more trouble from the singer's bizarre entourage than from mysterious threats and her new-found knowledge of Shona's past. How can Anna help a client who has treated her as an enemy until it is far too late?
Don't judge a book by its cover, or a bag lady by her appearance. 'I didn't always look like this, ' she says. Being barmy doesn't mean I'm stupid. Lady Bag does have her problems, her close relationship with cheap red wine, for example. When she gets hammered she talks to her dog. When she's extra-hammered her dog talks to her. Guess who makes better sense. She and her rescue greyhound, Electra, wander through the streets of London, seeing a Dickensian side of the capital city that's visible only to the homeless. Together they accept the kindness and unkindness of strangers with the same wry patience. Until, on one dreadful day, they meet the Devil outside the National Portrait Gallery
Nita Tehri's life seems sorted. She has a good job, she lives in a pretty apartment in a quiet street and she has escaped from the family who endangered her. Yet despite everything she's achieved she still has a problem. She doesn't look like her neighbours. And when a grizzly discovery is made outside her door all eyes turn towards her. She has done nothing wrong. But slowly, inexorably, her life turns inside-out. How can the people she used to think of as her friends and colleagues behave so irrationally in modern, enlightened England? Little by little her faith in society and British justice is eroded