'A gripping tale of family and forbidden love' Guardian

Two brothers confront each other and themselves to overcome their family legacy, from the doomed coalfields of north-east England to sun-bleached southern Spain

Frank Bridge turned his back on his family's gangland conflicts in Northumberland decades ago. His brother, Gordon, fled to Spain and has not been heard from since. Frank's life has taken a different path to the same place: he fell in love with Lorca's poetry and the woman who brought it to him.

But when their gangster father dies, Frank feels he must track down Gordon and tell him that their father's reign of terror is over. Can Frank's appearance after twenty-five years prompt a truce - a reconciliation even - or will his arrival merely be the catalyst for more turmoil and brutality?

'Thrilling and brilliantly imagined' Sarah Hall

'Tight, artful...bloody and vivid' The Times

'Savage, sorrowful, superb' Niall Griffiths

'A beautifully written, dark debut novel' Independent

'A thoughtful and atmospheric crime caper' Daily Telegraph