Nic Caruana is paid to kill people. Once, he was destined for a white-collar job in a middle-class area. But like many kids, he made a fatal mistake. Now, he inhabits the bleak, dark city that runs like a seam beneath the London he used to know.
His latest job is to track down the murderer of the daughter of a south London arms dealer. Nic knows this is a world where everybody is protecting somebody higher up the chain: he'll have to use every tool in his armoury to find her killer. But when Nic falls in love with beautiful, damaged Clare - the wife of his employer and definitely not for the taking - his careful plans are destroyed. This grief-stricken mother has her own agenda, and soon Nic is dragged into a twisted power-play between husband and wife. Before he can escape unscathed, obsession takes hold, and events hurtle relentlessly to their terrifying conclusion.
Taut, spare, and brilliantly plotted, Something You Are is the first in a series of menacing urban crime novels from a young female writer of exceptional talent.
