{"product_id":"hirelings-tale","title":"Hireling's Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo people are hiring out their services in Castlemere - a prostitute with only hours to live, and a hired assassin with only hours to make his kill . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When the naked body of a young prostitute is found on a narrowboat on the Castlemere Canal, police enquiries focus on the nearby Barbican Hotel. For with a sales conference in progress there's no shortage of men who could have met the girl there. But soon Superintendent Shapiro and his team have a great deal more to contend with. For the dead woman was not the only person to have hired herself out that night: a paid assassin is at large - and he is gunning for the conference organizer Philip Kendall. Jo Bannister's Castlemere novels are tough and very realistic - in the tradition of Lynda La Plante's \u003ci\u003ePrime Suspect\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54254228275544,"sku":"9781447243694","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781447243694_ee0060f9-5efc-437a-8cb3-4f597c13b8c6.jpg?v=1769238046","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hirelings-tale","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}