Ready for a quiet life, yet battered from all sides, will this be one blow too many for Knox? They zone in on the perpetrator, but cornered and desperate, their quarry won't go without a fight.
Whilst Knox treads on eggshells and traces the finances, the rest of the team led by his real life partner, DC Yvonne Mason, focus on the rape.
A lot of serious people lost serious money. The victim had secured private investments for NewTech, a video games company that fell foul of copyright law. The detective splits the under-resourced squad and follows up the murder himself, quickly establishing that there is no shortage of individuals who would have wanted the man dead. Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books, Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction a true modern classic.After powerful investors lose big, investigating a financial advisor's murder won't be child's play for a strained detective.ĭI Jack Knox's Edinburgh team are busy dealing with a series of violent rapes when a man is found murdered on a residential street. and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come.
But this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger. Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question. They've been friends since they were children, and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. Callum is a nought: pale-skinned and poor, he's considered to be less than nothing - a blanker, there to serve Crosses - but he dreams of a better life. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. 'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!' Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman.
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