VINE STREET by Dominic Nolan, read by Owen Findlay - audiobook extract
Soho, 1935.\nSergeant Leon Geats' Patch.\n\nA snarling, skull-cracking misanthrope, Geats marshals the grimy rabble according to his own elastic moral code.\n\nThe narrow alleys are brimming with jazz bars, bookies, blackshirts, ponces and tarts, so when a body is found above the Windmill Club, detectives are content to dismiss the case as just another young woman who topped herself early.\n\nBut Geats - a good man prepared to be a bad one if it keeps the worst of them at bay - knows the dark seams of the city.\n\nWorking with his former partner, mercenary Flying Squad Sergeant Mark Cassar, Geats obsessively dedicates himself to finding a warped killer - a decision that will reverberate for a lifetime and transform both men in ways they could never expect.