There’s no way back…There’s no way back…The picturesque city of York is rocked when the hellraiser and lottery winner Billy Privett is found murdered in a town centre hotel – his corpse brutally dissected, as if someone had performed a post mortem whilst he was still alive. Chillingly, the walls of the room bear words daubed in Billy’s blood, including “Free” and “The Process is Coming Down.”Billy’s infamous reputation had been sealed a year previously – when a local university student had been found dead in mysterious circumstances at one of his debauched parties – and his death is little lamented, apart from by his lawyer, the young and ambitious Amelia Diaz, who remains convinced of his innocence.But who could have killed Billy in such a way? Unbeknownst to the police, a terrifying new cult is on the rise, one that may hold the key to Billy’s death; The Church of the Free Mind. The cult is presided over by the charismatic and terrifying Charlie Watson, who holds absolute power over the church members. But when Amelia is drawn too close to the group whilst investigating Billy’s death, it seems that these fervently religious cult members would do anything to protect their leader – even murder…DI Sheldon Brown has never recovered from finding the body of Alice Kenyon brutally murdered, naked and abandoned in a pool. And he’s never stopped pursuing his main suspect, hellraiser and lottery winner Billy Privett either. So when Billy is found dead and, what’s more, viciously dissected, DI Brown’s obsession is rekindled. Who killed the notorious millionaire in such a bloodthirsty way? With jaded lawyer Charlie Barker – who desperately needs to pick up the pieces of his own life – Sheldon will uncover a world of drugs, long-buried secrets and a cult with a deadly conviction to their cause …Praise for Neil White:’… a whirlwind of a novel…a serious contender to match the giants of the crime fiction world’Crimesquad.com‘Superbly paced, with firmly grounded dialogue and a believeable cast if characters, this subtle page-turner lingers long in the mind.’Lancashire Evening Post‘Enough originality and suspense to make this a good read.’South Wales Argus'Neil White is taking the crime thriller market by storm. Last Rites teems with menace, and the action builds to a terrific climax.'Lancashire Evening Post‘Certain to have you hooked from start to finish.’Closer MagazineBorn above a shoe shop in the mid-1960s, Neil spent most of his childhood in Wakefield in West Yorkshire as his father pursued a career in the shoe trade. This took Neil to Bridlington in his teens, where he failed all his exams and discovered that doing nothing soon turns into long-term unemployment. Re-inventing himself, Neil returned to education in his 20s, qualified as a solicitor when he was 30, and now spends his days in the courtroom and his evenings writing crime fiction.•Neil White has been one of 2011’s eBook runaway successes, selling over 60k of Cold Kill in less than 3 months and topping the eBook charts• Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham and Peter James, plus viewers of Wire in the Blood, Luther and Above Suspicion• Neil White is a Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in the North and uses his vast knowledge and expertise within his books.Competition: Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, Stephen Booth
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