BROWN BREAD IN WENGEN

The third in the Nicky Burkett series takes him from Walthamstow to Switzerland. First he finds a dead member of parliament on his doorstep. Then the MP s widow hires him to find the killer. The trail leads to Switzerland. The whole gang decamps to Wengen in the high Alps - Noreen Hurlock, Jimmy Foley, Rameez Ahmed, Paulette James, Mercedes Marty Fisherman and Wayne Sapsford, not to mention DS TT Holdsworth and warrant officer George Marshall. Nicky takes a hilarious skiing lesson and then the bloody denouement descends on the town square of Wengen on new year s eve. Startlingly original, brilliantly funny crime novel sure to captivate fans of masters like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake. Reviews