The Only Game

One of Britains most consistently excellent crime novelists Marcel Berlins, The Times [Reginald Hill] keeps one on the edge of ones wits throughout a bitterly enthralling detection thriller Sunday Times

When a four-year-old child is abducted from an Essex kindergarten, Detective Inspector Dog Cicero soon realizes that this is no routine investigation.

Something about the childs mother troubles him. Maybe its the fact that she comes from Derry, and Ciceros Northern Ireland scars go deeper than his ruined face. But he cant help feeling theres more to it than that.

Soon Cicero finds the odds are stacked against him both personally and professionally not that he will let that stop him. For hes a gambling man, and when deaths the only game in town, a gambling man has got to play.