City Without Stars

Tim Baker

Hundreds of murders. Multiple cover ups. One cop and one activist. Can they really bring down the narcos?

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571338344
Date Published
03.01.2019
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Summary

The epic second novel from the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger-shortlisted and Shamus-nominated author of Fever City

Mexico – Ciudad Real is in crisis: the economy is in meltdown, a new war between rival cartels is erupting, and a serial killer is murdering hundreds of female workers.

Fuentes, the detective in charge of the investigation, suspects that most of his colleagues are on the payroll of his chief suspect, narco kingpin, El Santo. If he’s going to stop the killings, he has to convince fiery union activist, Pilar, to ignore all her instincts and work with him. But in a city eclipsed by murder, madness and magic, can she really afford to trust him?

Critic Reviews

Too gripping to put down.

Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express
Critic Reviews

If I had been a Man Booker judge, I would have argued for the merits of Tim Baker's City Without Stars, an unflinchingly grim but unputdownable novel set in Mexico, in which the activities of a prolific serial killer go practically unnoticed in a country in which homicide is quotidian.

Daily Telegraph
Critic Reviews

The natural successor to such hallowed crime writers as Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy.

Stylist
Critic Reviews

Absolutely brilliant.

Abir Mukherjee, author of A Rising Man
Critic Reviews

One of the best crime novels you will read in a long, long time.

Vaseem Khan, author of The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Critic Reviews

One of those books that just won’t let you go.

Stav Sherez, author of The Intrusions
TimBaker

Born in Sydney, Tim Baker lived in Rome and Madrid before moving to Paris, where he wrote about jazz. He has worked on film projects in India, China, Mexico, Brazil and Australia, and currently lives in the South of France with his wife, their son, and two rescue animals, a dog and a cat. His debut novel, Fever City, was…

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