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Stench: The Axe In The Head Murder
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781919543918
Publisher: Black Rat Books
Published: Mar 30 2026
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Late-eighties London. A private detective lies dead in a pub car park, an axe in his skull. His murder sets off a chain reaction that pulls in bent coppers, tabloid hacks, and the highest ranks of the British establishment. One killing. One cover-up. Corruption everywhere you look. A hard-boiled crime thriller inspired by the real-life murder of Daniel Morgan.
Stench is a feverish plunge into London crime, where dirty cops, gangsters, and the gutter press, collide in a storm of lies, violence and cocaine powder, that feels both historical and hallucinatory.
Think L.A. Confidential with freemasons, MDMA and London riots.
A startling crime debut from the new voice of Brit noir.
Stench is a literary Molotov cocktail - blistering, paranoid, and all too plausible. Londonopia
The soul of a poet living in the body of a crime writer. Katie Isbester, Claret Press
A vivid, hardcore recreation of murder, conspiracy and corruption... Read it and be thrilled by the darkness that surrounds us. Jon Hotten
Murder Mystery. Historical Crime Thriller. Hard-boiled. Nor. Neo-noir. Brit noir. Police procedural. True crime.
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