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Dead Man Driving

A Health of Strangers thriller

Lesley Kelly author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Sandstone Press Ltd

Published:20th Jul '23

Should be back in stock very soon

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Two years into a devastating flu pandemic, food shortages are critical. The streets are full of angry protestors objecting to the government’s proposed rationing.

Policing demonstrations is firmly outside the Health Enforcement Team’s remit, but that doesn’t stop their boss sending them in. As the threat escalates, the team find themselves being drawn into a government cover up, investigating a terrorist cell, and tugging at the threads of a global conspiracy.

As tensions rise throughout the city and the nation, the stakes have never been higher.

Dead Man Driving by Lesley Kelly is the latest book in the Health of Strangers series.

‘Really entertaining mystery series set in an alternative Edinburgh where a virus is rampant. Investigative team of quirky outsiders means it stands comparison with Mick Herron’s Slough House.’ - Ian Rankin


'Laced with dark humour and a sense that the unfolding fiction could become a reality at any moment, there's a mesmeric quality to Kelly's writing that ensures this book, like its predecessor, is a real page turner; with the exception of a few hours sleep, I read it from cover to cover over a weekend - seldom does a book have that draw.' - Liam Rudden, Edinburgh Evening News

ISBN: 9781914518362

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 289g

304 pages