Winner of the prestigious CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2022 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.WCraven 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 todayDead 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 batPoe is confus