""Bad Penny Blues" is the English "Black Dahlia" and will establish Cathi Unsworth as the First Lady of Noir Fiction."--David Peace
Policeman Pete Bradley is working the nightshift when he stumbles across a young woman's body. A prostitute, she was strangled and her body dumped by a riverbank. His search for her killer brings him deep into London's underbelly.
Meanwhile Stella, a young fashion designer with a promising career ahead of her, is woken by terrifying nightmares that echo the last hours of the dead women . . .
Cathi Unsworth's previous books include "The Not Knowing" and "The Singer."