Funeral rites - Alfie Robins

Gritty crime fiction from Yorkshire

The day that DI Harry "H" Blackburn suffered a cardiac arrest on the cobbles things changed forever. In a journey from life to death and back again, he glimpses his past and, more significantly, his future. When Blackburn stumbles across a young woman Katya, an Eastern European prostitute, lying broken and bleeding in a shop doorway he and his team are drawn into a heart-rending case of human trafficking. Discovering that an old adversary is the man behind the operation, Blackburn is determined to bring him down. At any cost.

Alfie Robins is the author of Just Whistle andSnakes and Losers.