White City - Nolan Dominic

*THE BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024 - THE TIMES* BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2024 - SUNDAY TIMES* BOOKS OF THE MONTH - THE GUARDIAN''I very much doubt I''ll read a better crime novel this year'' IAN RANKIN''The best crime novel I''ve read this year'' THE TIMES''Quite breathtaking'' DAILY MAIL''Superb'' THE GUARDIAN''Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer'' CHRIS WHITAKER''A truly excellent crime novel'' MAIL ON SUNDAYIt''s 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs.An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof. For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery. Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house. Claire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale. She finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband''s disappearance: Dave Lander, whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer, and Teddy ''Mother'' Nunn, a sociopathic, evangelising outl
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