First Lady - Hardcover

"* 'Two of the most memorable police detectives to appear in mystery fiction' - Ed McBain * 'A stylish gift for language... tender and believable... the characters come alive' -Washington Post Book World * 'The Hammet-Chandler tradition is alive and well... all the right laconic flicks of humour, all the right humanity under the slick quickness that the old masters employed' - H R F Keating * 'Perhaps the best novelist of the New South... and one of the most distinctive talents to emerge in crime fiction.' - Guardian

Worth waiting for - the hugely popular Savile and Mangum team is back Multi-award winning author Michael Malone returns to Hillstown, North Carolina, the setting of his internationally acclaimed Uncivil Seasons and Time's Witness. A woman's body has been found - mutilated, tagged and addressed to Lt Justin Savile V and Police Chief Cuddy R. Mangum. Dubbed the 'Guess Who Killer' by a voracious press, Hillstown in North Carolina has a serial killer on its hands. The media and major demand answers while the city lives in fear. Savile and Mangum are being taunted, stalked and threatened with losing all they hold dear - and yet they have no leads...