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The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. If you like crime-novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this.________________________The gripping first novel in the DC Max Wolfe crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. Like Ian Rankin or Peter James? You'll love this.Twenty years ago, seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field.Now, they're being murdered one by one, in the most violent way imaginable.Detective Max Wolfe has recently arrived in the Homicide division of London's West End Central, 27 Savile Row.Soon he is following the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the internet and all the way to the corridors of power.As the bodies pile up, Max finds the killer's reach getting closer to everything - and everyone - he loves.Soon he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life...

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The first in a new crime series from Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man & Boy. Seven rich, privileged alumni of an exclusive private school have started dying in the most violent way imaginable, and Detective Max Wolfe must follow the bloody trail from the backstreets and the bright lights of London to the darkest corners of the internet and all the way to the corridors of power. 'A tense debut crime novel with a dose of dry wit' The Times

Author Biography

TONY PARSONS is a bestselling novelist and an award-winning journalist.His books have been published in over forty languages and his multimillion-selling novelMan and Boy won the Book of the Year prize in 2000.Most recently, he created the Max Wolfe crime series.The Murder Bag, the first Max Wolfe book, went to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list and in 2023 was voted one of the100 best crimes books of all time by the readers of Dead Good Books.Tony lives in London with his family.

Review

Propulsive ... If The Murder Bag marks the launch of a new crime series, count me in. * The Times *
A tense debut crime novel with a dose of dry wit * Daily Express *
Impressive, page-turning ... Told with conviction and at an ever increasing pace * Daily Mail *
Truly emotive crime-writing is a rarity, and The Murder Bag looks set to win Tony Parsons many new fans in the genre * GQ *
Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic. * Lee Child *
Sometimes, rarely, you know from the first chapter or so of a novel that you're in the hands of a master story teller. In the case of Tony Parsons's brilliant new thriller, The Murder Bag, we know this within the first few pages. A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling (and wrenching) portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must-read. And I have two words for hero Max Wolfe: More. Soon. * Jeffery Deaver *
Has all the ingredients and more: great plotting, great characters and at least two eye-widening twists I didn't see coming. * Sophie Hannah *
It's a brilliant crime novel, a thrilling procedural. Max Wolfe is a wonderfully endearing character, smart and tough and vulnerable, and with Scout (and Stan too) Tony has created so much warmth and tenderness, in a world, a genre, so often devoid of it. His research is wide, deep, impeccable - from forensics to the psychology, procedure to protocol. And boy does he know how to create suspense, and convincing plot lines, which snake and weave, and surprise right until the very end. This is a complex, shocking, very contemporary story, told with utter conviction and authority. I was hooked from page one. Crime writing has brilliant new star. * Henry Sutton *

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The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. If you like crime-novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this.

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Propulsive ... If The Murder Bag marks the launch of a new crime series, count me in.

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The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons , bestselling author of Man and Boy. If you like crime-novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this.

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