Bad Penny Blues

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.

A tender ode to London in the 1960's - a novel with a twisted mystery at its heart.

Cathi Unsworth began her journalistic career at 19 while still studying at the London College of Fashion. Headhunted by Melody Maker, she worked there as a freelance feature writer/reviewer for several years before joining Bizarre magazine. Her writing is inspired by the late Derek Raymond, whom she interviewed for Melody Maker and who encouraged her to follow the crime-writing path. She is the editor of London Noir, a collection of London crime stories published by Serpents Tail. Her previous novels are The Not Knowing and The Singer.