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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE
''The Bone Readers is a page-turner, but its insights and language are equally testament to a literary novel of impressive depth and acuity''
Guardian
Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak . . .
After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael ''Digger'' Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman.
Digger becomes enmeshed in Chilman''s obsession with a cold case, the disappearance of a young man. But Digger has a murder to pursue too: that of his mother, killed by a renegade police squad when he was a boy.
He has two weapons at his disposal - his skill in forensics, and Chilman''s latest recruit, the mysterious, observant Miss Stanislaus. Together, the two find themselves dragged into a world of dangerous secrets that demands e
Trade Review
The Bone Readers is a page-turner, but its insights and language are equally testament to a literary novel of impressive depth and acuity - Guardian
It's masterly. I've started to read it again with increasing admiration - Crime Time
A breathtaking, thought-provoking, and yes brilliant read. I know this is a book I shall go back to again and again - Sunny Singh
Ross's novel is one that effortlessly draws together the past and the present, gender, politics and the legacy of colonialism in a top quality Caribbean set crime thriller.
The Bone Readers is a wonderful read - Catherine Johnson
By turns
thrilling, visceral and meditative, and always cinematic - Musa Okwonga
