Blind Needle

A ''razor-sharp'' and ''dark and dangerous'' thriller (City Life): a man seeking his wife''s killer finds himself embroiled with a sex-hungry divorcée and a drugs ring rife with corruption . . . but there are darker secrets yet to uncover.

Peter Holford was recently an inmate of a psychiatric institution, but he''s out, and on the trail of the man he believes murdered his wife. He''s given a lift one dark, wet night by an attractive young woman; Diane Locke is a divorcée and hungry for sex - but she befriends him, even shielding him from the police as he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy involving drugs, fraud and murder . . .

In Blind Needle, ''a novel of dark and dangerous ideas'' (Glasgow Herald), Trevor Hoyle takes the traditional thriller and adds a new twist.