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The Bone Readers

The Bone Readers


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Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak...

When Michael (Digger) Digson is recruited into DS Chilman’s new plain clothes squad in the small Caribbean island of Camaho he brings his own mission to discover who amongst a renegade police squad killed his mother in a political demonstration. Sent to London to train in forensics, Digger becomes enmeshed in Chilman’s obsession with a cold case – the disappearance of a young man whose mother is sure he has been murdered. But along with his new skill in forensics, Digger makes rich use of the cultural knowledge he has gained from the Fire Baptist grandmother who brought him up, another kind of reader of bones. And when the enigmatic Miss K. Stanislaus, another of Chilman’s recruits, joins him on the case, Digger finds that his science is more than outmatched by her observational skills. Together, they find themselves dragged into a world of secrets, disappearances and danger that demands every ounce of their brains, persistence and courage to survive.

Jacob Ross brings the best traditions of crime fiction to the Caribbean novel with a fast-moving narrative, richly observed characters, a powerful evocation of place and a denouement that will leave readers breathless. Set on the small Caribbean island of Camaho, The Bone Readers introduces DC Michael (Digger) Digson and his partner Miss K. Stanislaus as they are dragged into a world of secrets, disappearances and danger that demands every ounce of their brains, persistence and courage to survive. With its compelling sense of place and cast of characters with real emotional depth, The Bone Readers artfully delivers for the Caribbean what Ian Rankin does for Scotland.

The Bone Readers is the first in Ross's Camaho Quartet.



About the Author :
Jacob Ross is a novelist, short story writer, editor and creative writing tutor. His latest book, Black Rain Falling, was published by Sphere in March 2020. His previous crime novel, The Bone Readers, won the inaugural Jhalak Prize in 2017. His literary novel Pynter Bender was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize and chosen as one of the British Authors Club’s top three Best First Novels. Jacob is also the author of two short story collections and editor of Closure, Contemporary Black British short stories. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781845233372
  • Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1845233379
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 270


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