{"product_id":"two-oclock-boy","title":"Two O'Clock Boy","description":"Product Description\n\n\nConnor Laird frightens people: he's intense, he's fearless, and he seems to be willing to do anything to protect himself and those he loves. He arrives in the Longacre Children's Home seemingly from nowhere, and instantly becomes hero and villain to every other child there. Thirty years later, someone is killing all of those who grew up in the Longacre, one by one. Each of them has secrets, not least investigating cop DI Ray Drake. One by one the mysteries of the past are revealed as Drake finds himself in a race against time before the killer gets to him. Who is killing to hide their secret? And can YOU guess the ending?\n\n\nReview\n\n\nA fantastic debut: dark, addictive and original.\nI couldn't put it down. (\nRobert Bryndza, author of The Girl in the Ice)\n\n\nGrips from the start and never lets up (\nThe Times)\n\n\nA cracking debut. I can't wait to see more of Ray Drake. (\nMark Billingham)\n\nUtterly gripping, packed with unforgettable characters - and SO well-written.\nThe twists had me reeling! (\nLouise Voss)\n\n\nA delight of a book that wreaks havoc with your assumptions in a delicious Highsmithian manner.\nHill has a hell of a career ahead of him. (\nAlex Marwood)\n\nEnter DI Ray Drake, the flawed, sharply-drawn lead of this promising new series. The author has an unerring ability to give incidents\na biting sense of reality (\nSunday Times (Crime Club Best Debuts of the Year))\n\nAmbitiously complex and compelling,\nTwo O'Clock Boy left me deliciously uncomfortable and\nblindsided by that final twist! (\nAngela Clarke)\n\n\nTwo O'Clock Boy is surely going to be the hardest debut of 2017 to beat.\nWhat a story and what a superb writer! (\nAlex Gray)\n\nAs poignant as it is\ngripping. (Jake Kerridge\nSunday Express)\n\nAn\nassured, dark and gritty debut marking the start of what looks like\na great series (\nStav Sherez)\n\nAn unsettling and powerful story. The plot cleverly weaves past and present - with\nshocking, edge-of-the-seat twists until its\nheart-stopping finale (\nDavid Young, author of Stasi Child)\n\n\nFiercely fresh and wonderfully written. DI Drake is a marvellous creation and I can't wait to read more (\nSJI Holliday)\n\nA compelling read,\npacked with unexpected twists and explosive secrets, that builds to a shocking and\nunforgettable climax. A fantastic debut. (\nRod Reynolds)\n\nMark Hill has written\na brilliant debut with characters that linger in the subconscious long after reading. I devoured\nThe Two O'Clock Boy and can't wait to see what he does next. He's\na real talent. (\nSteve Cavanagh)\n\n\nA cracking debut from a talent to watch (\nFiona Cummins, author of Rattle)\n\nI loved\nThe Two O'Clock Boy! It's\ngripping and scary and twisty and unpredictable (\nValentina Giambanco)\n\nAt a stroke,\nMark Hill has joined the upper echelons of London crime writers (\nBarry Forshaw, Crime Time)\n\nEnough cunning plot twists to keep you hooked right up to the\nnerve-jangling denouement. (\nPaul Burston)\n\nDI Drake is\nthe flawed detective most of us can only dream of writing (\nIsabelle Grey)\n\nTwisty, gripping and gritty,\nTwo O'Clock Boy is an exciting start to\na major new crime series (\nCass Green, author of The Woman Next Door)\n\n\nUnputdownable! (\nClaire Evans, author of The Fourteenth Letter)\n\nA\nsuperb final twist (\nMorning Star)\n\n\nBook Description\n\n\nMark Hill's debut TWO O'CLOCK BOY is the gripping, twist-filled start to a fantastic new London-set crime thriller series starring morally corrupt DI Ray Drake -\nthe perfect new addiction for fans of Luther\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\nMark Hill is a London-based full-time writer of novels and scripts. Formerly he was a journalist and a producer at BBC Radio 2 across a range of major daytime shows and projects. He has won two Sony Gold Awards.\nmarkhillauthor.com@markhillwriterfacebook.com\/MarkHillAuthor","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39667915194453,"sku":"9780751563238N","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/c99ce041-1ab7-4ac0-b63a-acab13aeb109.jpg?v=1644302467","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/two-oclock-boy","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}