Publisher's Synopsis
"A first-rate thriller with a terrific climax."-The Sunday Telegraph (London)
"Grisham did it in America, now a British criminal lawyer debuts with a suspense-packed thriller."-Peterborough Evening Telegraph
"John Connor's debut novel Phoenix starts as just about the most impressive police procedural that I've ever read-and one of the most authentic."-Morning Star
Karen Sharpe is a tough-talking, hard-drinking woman. Too drunk to leave her house, she had her sergeant meet an informant for her, and he was killed. Beset by guilt, she is determined to find the killer.
John Connor was a senior criminal lawyer within the Crown Prosecution Service.
