The Business of DyingIt's a typical cold November night and DS Dennis Milne, a very untypical policeman, is in the car park of the Traveller's Rest hotel awaiting his instructions to kill three unarmed men. Cynical and jaded, Milne earns money on the side by doing what he does best, punishing the bad guys. But this times he's been duped. Instead of blowing away some notorious drug dealers, he kills two respectable customs officers and an accountant, their deaths starting

the young policewoman who is assigned the case

But when her beloved father

after two years in prison

In the depths of a sweltering summer

ALL AT ONCE

Most importantly

JOHN MEYER FREY

Could he be the killer

But while everyday life continues around her

author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera

because hes played every trick in the book

when the revelation finally arrives