The Subtle KnifeAfter killing a man, 12 year old Will steps into another world and finds himself with a strange girl called Lyra. But Citagazze is an unsettling place, and in Torre delgi Angeli lurks Citagazze's most important secret an object which people from many worlds would kill to possess.

A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn

Elizabeth's idyllic world is upended

This new reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer

Suspended by chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss

many in draft form

' are the first words Gerry says when they meet in the crush of men competing for the few women at a dance in a seaside hotel

including the unpublished The Man Who Knew

even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife

to Rebecca Springthorpe's shock

Jack Lark is an unforgettable new hero' Anthony Riches 'You feel and experience all the emotions and the blood

And parallel with the difficulties faced in the hunt is the growing threat to his marriage

Cyrus' ex-lover