Coming Soon

By Peter Grainger

On Sale: Sep 1, 2026
Page Count: 352 pages
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13: 9781454968603

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$25.99 CAD

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“THE GREATEST FICTIONAL SLEUTH YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF.” —FINANCIAL TIMES

DC Smith must confront both a violent history and the ghosts of his own past in this twisty new thriller.

Recovering from knee surgery, DC Smith is prescribed two weeks of bed rest. There will be no chasing murderers through the streets of Kings Lane—just a simple cuppa and a good book. He’s almost looking forward to it. That is, until there is a knock at the door. It’s only his next-door neighbor, but it is the beginning of a thrilling case that will take Smith to Northern Ireland, and three decades back in time to the darkest scenes of the detective’s past as a British intelligence officer during the Troubles. When old loyalties, buried secrets, and a complicated web of history and betrayal resurface, Smith is forced to confront events he thought were long behind him, because this case is personal.

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"The greatest fictional sleuth you've probably never heard of."
Financial Times
"The books are comforting, the writing is subtle, and the plots are gripping."
The Times of London
“The gruff and uncompromising Smith is a copper in the spirit of George Gently and John Rebus—that is, complicated and not cartoonish.”
Publisher’s Weekly
"What sets Grainger's books apart from the typical police procedural is the fully realized characters...That and his elegant prose, with its pitch-perfect dialogue, which gets more assured and more playful in each."
Financial Times

Peter Grainger

About the Author

Peter Grainger is the “creator of the greatest fictional sleuth you’ve probably never heard of” (Financial Times magazine). A former sixth-form English teacher, Peter is the author of 23 novels. He lives with his wife, sometimes a grandson, and a dog in a cottage in the Cambridgeshire fens. He travels as often as possible to the Norfolk coast he once called home.

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