The BRAND-NEW crime thriller in the bestselling DCI John Blizzard series which has received over 7,000 5* reviews.

For three nights, the Spur estate has burned. Petrol bombs, drones trailing flame, baseball bats hammering on riot shields. And each night, high on the landings above it all, a masked figure appears in a blaze of white light to the blare of a trumpet — then vanishes into the dark.

The papers are calling him The Orchestrator.

DCI John Blizzard has policed the Spur his whole career and he has never seen a riot like this one. It is far too disciplined. Someone is directing every move — burning down a six-hundred-year-old church, daubing hatred across the walls, turning neighbour against neighbour. But nobody on the estate will give up a name.

Then a body is found dead on the canal towpath. And Blizzard is forced to accept what he has been refusing to believe: someone inside his own investigation is informing on it.

Now a constable murdered on the Spur years ago begins to speak again — live on screen, claiming Blizzard missed one of his killers. A message daubed in dripping red paint promises that tonight, a copper dies.

Blizzard doesn't believe in ghosts. But someone has found a way to make the dead talk, and half of Hafton is listening.

A dark and timely police procedural where old-school policing collides with a very modern kind of crime. Perfect for fans of Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin, J.R. Ellis, and Ann Cleeves.