The Cement Garden John Nichol 'Russell delivers a brooding

'Russell delivers a brooding

This is evocative historical crime fiction at its best Victoria Dowd

Something that looks like a flying saucer

There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality

and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere

The Cement Garden John Nichol 'Russell delivers a broodingIn the arid summer heat, four children Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the childrens lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.