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Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. The first novel in his John Madden series, River of Darkness, was published in 1999 to huge critical acclaim, was shortlisted for four crime fiction awards and won the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France. River of Darkness was followed by The Blood-Dimmed Tide, the CWA Ellis Peters Award shortlisted The Dead of Winter, The Reckoning, and now The Death of Kings.
All the books by the less-than-prolific Rennie Airth are worth waiting for, and this fifth entry in the Inspector Madden series is outstanding. It's 1949 and Madden, now retired, reinvestigates the apparently solved murder of an actress in a novel that recalls Agatha Christie's classic Five Little Pigs in its treatment of the themes of time and justice. There can be no higher praise * Sunday Express * Rennie Airth keeps us riveted * Daily Mail * An almost too beautifully written series * New York Times * Airth's John Madden novels are must-reads * Daily Express * Compelling . . . Airth's atmosphere of London at war is superb * The Times * An excellent and convincing evocation of wartime London * C.J. Sansom *
