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An FT Best Summer Thriller 2023'Creates an atmosphere of mounting menace' The Times'Conjures up a backdrop so vivid you can taste the smoke in the air' Val McDermid, author of 1989BIRMINGHAM, 1933.Private enquiry agent William Garrett facilitates divorces for the city's male elite. With the help of his best friend - charming, out-of-work actor Ronnie Edgerton - William sets up honey traps. But photographing unsuspecting women in flagrante plagues his conscience and William heaves up his guts with remorse after every job.William's life changes when he meets the beautiful Clara Morton and falls in love. Little does he know she is the wife of a client - a leading fascist with a dangerous obsession. Soon, what should have been another straightforward job turns into something far more deadly.Drenched in evocative period atmosphere and starring an unforgettable cast of characters, Needless Alley takes the reader from seedy canal-side pubs, to crumbling Warwickshire manor houses, and into the hidden spaces of Birmingham's Queer, bohemian society.'Has all the seamy glitter and cynical grime of the genre' Daily Mail'Marlow's very engaging protagonist may herald the birth of a new genre: Midlands Noir' Financial Times'Evokes 1930s Birmingham in all its dark glory' Alan Parks, author of Bloody January'An exceptionally well-written first novel' Irish Times'Needless Alley makes for a gripping read that any Peaky Blinder fan is sure to love' Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora

An FT Best Summer Thriller 2023'Creates an atmosphere of mounting menace' The Times'Conjures up a backdrop so vivid you can taste the smoke in the air' Val McDermid, author of 1989BIRMINGHAM, 1933.Private enquiry agent William Garrett facilitates divorces for the city's male elite. With the help of his best friend - charming, out-of-work actor Ronnie Edgerton - William sets up honey traps. But photographing unsuspecting women in flagrante plagues his conscience and William heaves up his guts with remorse after every job.William's life changes when he meets the beautiful Clara Morton and falls in love. Little does he know she is the wife of a client - a leading fascist with a dangerous obsession. Soon, what should have been another straightforward job turns into something far more deadly.Drenched in evocative period atmosphere and starring an unforgettable cast of characters, Needless Alley takes the reader from seedy canal-side pubs, to crumbling Warwickshire manor houses, and into the hidden spaces of Birmingham's Queer, bohemian society.'Has all the seamy glitter and cynical grime of the genre' Daily Mail'Marlow's very engaging protagonist may herald the birth of a new genre: Midlands Noir' Financial Times'Evokes 1930s Birmingham in all its dark glory' Alan Parks, author of Bloody January'An exceptionally well-written first novel' Irish Times'Needless Alley makes for a gripping read that any Peaky Blinder fan is sure to love' Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora

An FT Best Summer Thriller 2023'Creates an atmosphere of mounting menace' The Times'Conjures up a backdrop so vivid you can taste the smoke in the air' Val McDermid, author of 1989BIRMINGHAM, 1933.Private enquiry agent William Garrett facilitates divorces for the city's male elite. With the help of his best friend - charming, out-of-work actor Ronnie Edgerton - William sets up honey traps. But photographing unsuspecting women in flagrante plagues his conscience and William heaves up his guts with remorse after every job.William's life changes when he meets the beautiful Clara Morton and falls in love. Little does he know she is the wife of a client - a leading fascist with a dangerous obsession. Soon, what should have been another straightforward job turns into something far more deadly.Drenched in evocative period atmosphere and starring an unforgettable cast of characters, Needless Alley takes the reader from seedy canal-side pubs, to crumbling Warwickshire manor houses, and into the hidden spaces of Birmingham's Queer, bohemian society.'Has all the seamy glitter and cynical grime of the genre' Daily Mail'Marlow's very engaging protagonist may herald the birth of a new genre: Midlands Noir' Financial Times'Evokes 1930s Birmingham in all its dark glory' Alan Parks, author of Bloody January'Needless Alley makes for a gripping read that any Peaky Blinder fan is sure to love' Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora

'Marlow has a poetic eye . . . But it's her mix of detective story and Gothic ghosts, ancient folk legends and lingering wartime trauma, that lift the book' Financial Times, Best new thrillersWarwickshire, 1934Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon's patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves.Recent disturbances, which originally appeared to be pranks, have descended into something more sinister, and now the men believe they have a malevolent visitor - the mermaid of Red Hollow. The ghost of a murdered girl, they are convinced the mermaid wreaks bloody revenge on unsuspecting men each time the hamlet floods.When private enquiry agent, William Garrett, and freshly minted detective, Phyll Hall, are called in to uncover the identity of the intruder, they become trapped in a world of madness, the occult, and grisly murder. A world where William must use all his strength to differentiate between the real-life monster haunting Red Hollow Hall and the monsters of the mind. The Red Hollow is the follow-up to Natalie Marlow's critically acclaimed debut, Needless Alley.'As full of atmosphere as the author's critically acclaimed debut' Prima'Superbly researched, spine-tingling, and magnificently atmospheric' Abir Mukherjee, author of The Shadows of Men'A truly splendid, wicked gem of a book. I loved it' Tom Mead, author of Death and the Conjuror

'Marlow has a poetic eye . . . But it's her mix of detective story and Gothic ghosts, ancient folk legends and lingering wartime trauma, that lift the book' Financial Times, Best new thrillersWarwickshire, 1934Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon's patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves.Recent disturbances, which originally appeared to be pranks, have descended into something more sinister, and now the men believe they have a malevolent visitor - the mermaid of Red Hollow. The ghost of a murdered girl, they are convinced the mermaid wreaks bloody revenge on unsuspecting men each time the hamlet floods.When private enquiry agent, William Garrett, and freshly minted detective, Phyll Hall, are called in to uncover the identity of the intruder, they become trapped in a world of madness, the occult, and grisly murder. A world where William must use all his strength to differentiate between the real-life monster haunting Red Hollow Hall and the monsters of the mind. The Red Hollow is the follow-up to Natalie Marlow's critically acclaimed debut, Needless Alley.'As full of atmosphere as the author's critically acclaimed debut' Prima'Superbly researched, spine-tingling, and magnificently atmospheric' Abir Mukherjee, author of The Shadows of Men'A truly splendid, wicked gem of a book. I loved it' Tom Mead, author of Death and the Conjuror