‘This impressive police procedural presents an unflattering but authentic picture of the multiracial megacity’ Times Crime Club. Humphrey’s latest thriller is prescient, dark and challenges some of the world’s worst fears. Alan Edwards had expected to see more blood. His initial reaction had surprised him. He’d never seen a murder victim before, let alone one with its throat sliced open. And yet, Edwards remained unexpectedly calm. He shone his torch through the windscreen. The flies were already hovering outside the lorry. The maggots would soon follow.