Perfectly Dead Andrew Taylor But Panama is a country

But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters

When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse

When Amanda's body is found

This is an impassioned plea for the lost

The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales

Perfectly Dead Andrew Taylor But Panama is a countryChief Inspector Jacobson hates drug related cases. Not least because it means he has to work with the drug squad. But there's no alternative when a local dealer turns up burnt, battered and dead. Just another hopeless, pointless sink estate incident in the middle of a grey, Crowby February. But even so Dave Carter's torched body is the stuff of bad dreams. Death doesn't get any grimmer, Jacobson thinks. But that's because Jacobson, DS Kerr and Crowby