The Winter Visitor

In the winter of 1991, a wanted drug smuggler named Bruce Hopkins returns to his old haunts in Colchester after a decade-long exile on the Costa del Sol. He is abducted and stripped bare, then sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. DS Daniel Kenton and DS Brazier are teamed up to investigate a crime wave that includes the murder of an expat dope smuggler, a sophisticated arson attack on a Norman church, and the unexpected suicide of an ageing florist. The novel is written with James Henry's trademark humor and period detail and is set in the badlands of his beloved Essex.

Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Essex, February 1991. The weather is bitterly cold, and everyone would rather be somewhere warmer, which is why it comes as a huge surprise when a wanted drug smuggler, Bruce Hopkins, risks a return to his old haunts in Colchester after a decade-long exile on the Costa del Sol. Lured back by a letter from the wife Hopkins left behind, no one is more surprised than him when he finds himself abducted and stripped bare, only to be sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The police wonder if it could be retaliation from a Spanish gang, sending a warning to their English counterparts?

DS Daniel Kenton is teamed up with the unorthodox DS Brazier to investigate a crime wave that takes in not only the murder of an expat dope smuggler, but a sophisticated arson attack on a Norman church, and the unexpected suicide of an ageing florist. Could there possibly be a thread that connects them?

Written with the humour and period detail that have become his trademark, and set in the badlands of his beloved Essex, The Winter Visitor is James Henry at his inimitable best.

Weight: 640g
Dimension: 241 x 164 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529431735