We are introduced to a newly formed group of twelve men who make up a squad in the london police nicknamed the yard.
The yard alex grecian summary.
After leaving a career in advertising working on accounts that included harley davidson and the great american smokeout alex returned to his first love.
Alex grecian is the national bestselling author of the contemporary thriller the saint of wolves and butchers the novels of scotland yard s murder squad including the yard the black country the devil s workshop the harvest man and lost and gone forever as well as the critically acclaimed graphic novels proof and rasputin.
His notable works include the comic book series proof and the novels in the scotland yard s murder squad series.
The yard the black country the devil s workshop the harvest man lost and gone forever and the blue girl.
Grecian has a fine flexible curious voice and the yard looks as if it could be the start of a promising series.
In the yard alex grecian offers a meticulously researched vision of the bustling city of london which teems with dickensian color.
Alex grecian is the national bestselling author of the scotland yard murder squad novels including the yard the black country and the forthcoming the devil s workshop.
After leaving a career in advertising working on accounts that included harley davidson and the great american smokeout alex returned to his first love.
The yard summary the yard.
Alex grecian was born august 6 1969.
And this reader has put him firmly on her must read list.
Indeed the enterprising blackleg on his own could profitably drive a sequel and.
With a masterful talent for storytelling he weaves multiple narratives that converge in a heart stopping climax.
He has been nominated for the strand award for best debut novel for the yard the dilys award for the black country and the barry award for best first novel for the yard.
S lick and sick is how fictional serial killers generally come these days but not in debut novelist alex grecian s historical thriller the yard where the murderer stumbles from killing to.
After the metropolitan police failed to solve that case a murder squad was formed within scotland yard.
London england 1889 the year after jack s infamous rampage.
He is the national bestselling author of the scotland yard murder squad novels including the yard the black country and the forthcoming the devil s workshop.
Grecian lives in kansas with his wife and son.
Detailed plot synopsis reviews of the yard the yard starts off in london 1889 a romantic city but a city with rising crime.
