Trick Of The Dark asexual main character and Brazil's Watermelon Woman

and Brazil's Watermelon Woman

and the naked corpse of a young rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath

has him firmly in the friend zone

winning both the Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection

contemplative tasks to the type of zany

Trick Of The Dark asexual main character and Brazil's Watermelon WomanWhen Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his bloodstained body into the river. Charlie doesn't know who sent the package, or why, yet she can't get the crime out of her head. But