Dead Ground
The Sunday Times bestselling thriller
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Dead Ground
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Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2022
'Heart-pounding, hilarious, sharp and shocking, Dead Ground is further proof that M.W. Craven never disappoints. Miss this series at your peril.' Chris Whitaker
'Dark and entertaining, this is top rank crime fiction.' Vaseem Khan, Author of the Malabar House series and the Baby Ganesh Agency series
'M. W. Craven is one of the best crime writers working today. Dead Ground is a cracking puzzle, beautifully written, with characters you'll be behind every step of the way. It's his best yet.' Stuart Turton
'Fantastic' Martina Cole
'Dark, sharp and compelling' Peter James
'You can taste the authenticity' Daily Mail
Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his beloved and isolated croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. Poe is confused - he hunts serial killers and this appears to be a straightforward murder-by-pimp - but his attendance was requested personally, by the kind of people who prefer to remain in the shadows.
As Poe and the socially awkward programmer Tilly Bradshaw delve deeper into the case, they are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions: despite being heavily vetted for a high-profile job, why does nothing in the victim's background check out? Why was a small ornament left at the murder scene - and why did someone on the investigation team steal it? And what is the connection to a flawlessly executed bank heist three years earlier, a heist where nothing was taken . . .
Praise for Dead Ground:
'Unmissable' Sunday Express
'I've been following M.W. Craven's Poe/Tilly series from the very beginning, and it just gets better and better. Dead Ground is a fast-paced crime novel with as many twists and turns as a country lane. I can't wait for the next one.' Peter Robinson
'Dead Ground is both entertaining and engaging with great characters and storyline. I loved this first dip into the world of Tilly and Poe!' BA Paris
Praise for M W Craven:
'A brutal and thrilling page turner' Natasha Harding, The Sun
'A thrilling curtain raiser for what looks set to be a great new series' Mick Herron
'One of the most engaging teams in crime fiction' Daily Mail
'A powerful thriller from an explosive new talent. Tightly plotted, and not for the faint hearted!'
David Mark
'A gripping start to a much anticipated new series' Vaseem Khan
'Satisfyingly twisty and clever and the flashes of humour work well to offer the reader respite from the thrill of the read.' Michael J. Malone
'Nothing you've ever read will prepare you for the utterly unique Washington Poe' Keith Nixon
'Beware if you pick up a book by M.W. Craven. Your life will no longer belong to you. He will hold you spellbound.' Linda's Book Bag
'Craven's understanding of the criminal world is obvious in this cracking read' Woman's Weekly
'Breath-taking' Random Things Through My Letterbox
'5 Stars... another fantastic literary experience and a welcome addition to the already brilliant Poe and Tilly series' Female First
'An explosive plot, slippery twists and my fave new crime-busting duo...Fantastic!' Peterborough Telegraph ©2021 M. W. Craven
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My Resume for the Washington Poe books 1-4
Intelligent crime novels have a psychological interplay of the main characters, have clever conversations, and reflect on the shortcomings and problems of society and politics- Craven's books don't.
Anyhow, I must say that I like Craven's way of storytelling as his stories don't lack suspense, have a compelling narrative and have a reasonable enough composition that they pass an assessment for a good story at a second thought, otherwise he would not have won several Golden Daggers....
Having said this, I must say that the stories have their flaws and some caveats. They are compelling as the typical "regional (that is, cumbrian) crime fiction" can be and serve the lust for escapism and sensationalism, but are neither outstanding nor very educating on a wider scale. The facts mentioned in the stories have not been vetted exactly, but are more ventilated than anything else. Despite beeing entertaining enough, the stories are pulled out of too thin air for my taste, and by applying the rule of "The Butler did it" I could often guess who the killer would be, strictly be picking the most innocent looking guy that was introduced into the story.
And the engrossing and exaggerated descriptions of death and "overkill" do not add anything new or original, yet by contrast they evoke the feeling that they are made to serve the appetite for the particular part of the readers who crave for sensation and vengeance. And what does this say about the author? :(
Besides, these crimes work out more because the author decided they would, not because they are very realistic once thought through.
The main characters, Poe and Tilly, have the plain and supperficial features of a decal pictures and remain quite static in terms of their character development.
Washington Poe, bears to many similarities with Craven's other detective, DI Fluke. (Both face eviction from their respective, allegedly wrongfully erected homes, and are ex-military.) Poe, is again more an archetypical hard-boiled copper, than the profiler he allegedly is. While his
military background keeps on coming up, his profiling skills are hardly ever mentioned or are relvant. (which is not necessarily a bad thing, as profiling in crime fiction is mostly depicted falsely pathetically ans embarrassingly as a near magical power). Poe actually solves his crime be "Sherlock-like" possibility to notice important details or because of a hunch. I often just don't buy the line of Poe's argumentation when coersing a statement: e.g. if a rich man deals with the Iranians, and if the US secretly allows him to do so, provided he delivers intelligence, the man who involuntary blows this operation by killing the rich man's son can hardly be charged with terrorism, am I right?
Tilly Bradshore on the other side, serves as the nerdy wingwoman for the technical part to Poe. Portrayed as a "Sheldon-like" autistic genius, she is as the both the source of knowledge and humor by her unconventional demeanor.
Despite her understated appearance of "coolness" (like geeky T-shirts or hints she is engaging in pen and paper role playing), she remains not a very credible character and as such annoying
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