Vunerable, exposed, naïve and dispensible, asylum-seekers are easy prey for the ruthless and Liverpool’s underworld is full of such people. This is tough, gritty, compulsive stuff, well worth getting caught up in.
Bled to death and left in a rubbish bin, the teenaged prostitute is just the first victim. DI Jeff Rickman’s investigation into the Afghan refugee’s sordid death leads first to the heart of a community who can’t - or won’t - talk to him. Then the investigation comes home to Rickman’s own private life. As the body count starts rising he is framed for a crime he didn’t commit. A murderer is trying to make things personal. Very personal. Is he on the trail of a serial killer? Or something even more sinister? THE DISPOSSESSED travels deep into the heart of Liverpool’s underworld. It is the strongest, most suspenseful and hardest hitting thriller this brilliant storyteller has written yet.
‘ In THE DISPOSSESSED Margaret Murphy . . . uncovers the horrifying snake-pit that is life for asylum-seekers in modern Britain . . . an eye-opening shocker of a novel, in which the links between sharp practice and crime form a chain to bind the unwary.’ TLS
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About Margaret Murphy
Margaret Murphy writes internationally acclaimed psychological thrillers under her own name, and forensic thrillers as Ashley Dyer and AD Garrett. She is the founder of Murder Squad, a past Chair of the Crime Writers Association, RLF Fellow and Reading Round Lector, and former Visiting Professor in creative writing at Liverpool JMU. A CWA Short Story Dagger, Red Herring, and HRF Keating award winner, she has also been shortlisted for the ‘First Blood’ critics’ award and Dagger in the Library.
Margaret has also written under the pseudonyms: Ashley Dyer and A.D. Garrett. You can find out more about books written under these names at www.ashley-dyer.com and www.adgarrett.com.
