Memo From Turner

Tim Willocks Jonathan Cape €20.99

Willocks’s thrillers – Green River Rising et al – are marked out by the elegance of the writing coupled with the brutality of the action. Memo From Turner is no exception. A rich young South African accidentally kills a black teenager. An honest cop is determined to bring him to justice, but he has to go to appalling, sanity-sapping lengths to do so. A ferocious read.