Paper Cell

From the publisher of Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project the first in a new series of distinctive standalone crime stories each with a literary bent. In 1950s London a literary agent finds fame when he secretly steals a young woman's brilliant novel manuscript and publishes it under his own name Lewis Carson. Two days after their meeting the woman is found strangled on Peckham Rye Common: did Lewis purloin the manuscript as an act of callous opportunism or as the spoils of a calculated murder?