by Simon Kernick · tapa dura · ISBN 9780593049785
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«The Business of Dying» is Simon Kernick's crime novel, published by Bantam in hardcover (335 pages, in English).
Detective Dennis Milne, cynical and disillusioned, is hired to kill three men who turn out to be innocent. He then investigates the murder of Miriam Fox, an eighteen-year-old found by the canal, and uncovers a web of police corruption that brings him closer to the mysterious Carla Graham while he himself tries to avoid arrest.
First installment in the Detective Dennis Milne series. Originally published in 2002, it was shortlisted for the 2003 Barry Award (best British crime novel).
For fans of British crime fiction and police thrillers with morally ambiguous protagonists.
Simon Kernick is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters. Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruit-picker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in humanities.
