Topping & Company
This week, we take a trip to the genteel environs of Bath in the company of crime write Mo Hayder...
This episode, The Book Show goes West in the company of crime writer Mo Hayder to Topping & Company, of Bath.
Open since 2007, Topping & Company is the younger sister branch to another shop by the same name in Ely, Cambridgeshire, and stocks over 30,000 titles, plus – importantly – tea and cake. But it seems the recommendation from the heart of pretty Regency Bath is anything but picturesque...
The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe
Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef of Port Dundas is making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, and blindsided by her recent divorce, sixty-one-year-old Hazel has only the constructive criticism of her old goat of a mother to buoy her.
But when a Port Dundas woman is found murdered in her home – with no sign of resistance and her mouth sculpted into a strangely meaningful shape – Hazel and her bickering department spring to life. And as more bodies are found, she must confront a clamouring press and the town’s rumour mill whilst she edges ever closer to this terrifying, gruesomely inventive serial killer.
