The Devil’s Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth, £7.99

LOCAL author (and our very own bookseller!) Simon Unsworth offers a dark thriller set in a version of Hell unlike any you’ve experienced before. At its heart is a murder mystery that asks the question, how do you solve a crime in a place where death and horror are commonplace and where safety is a fleeting, distant thing?

Thomas Fool, investigator in Hell, is charged with investigating an increasingly brutal series of deaths is this chilling tale of hope and fear where everything is at risk and nothing is what it seems.

This stunning blend of crime thriller and Dante-esque horror is followed by a sequel, The Devil’s Evidence, which is also available.

CAROLINE REECE

WATERSTONES KENDAL