First edition, first printing.
Fine in a fine dust jacket.
First book in the Real-Town Murders series.
"Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country
desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the
immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend
their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying.
Alma's
partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every 4 hours, a task
that only Alma can do. If she misses the 5 minute window her lover will
die. She is one of the few not to access the Shine.
So when Alma
is called to an automated car factory to be shown an impossible death
and finds herself caught up in a political coup, she knows that getting
too deep may leave her unable to get home.
What follows is a
fast-paced Hitchcockian thriller as Alma evades arrest, digs into the
conspiracy, and tries to work out how on earth a dead body appeared in
the boot of a freshly-made car in a fully-automated factory."--Fantastic Fiction.
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