`Crackles with energy and wit' - The Times 1896: A missing daughter. Three dead children. A sinister connection between a farm and an asylum. Arrowood must catch the killer before he strikes again - and before Sherlock Holmes or the police take the credit...

Author Biography

Mick was born in Glasgow but left as a young boy, living in Canada and then England. Before becoming an academic, he ran a market stall on Portobello Road, and has worked as a tent-hand in a travelling circus, a butcher's boy, a hotel porter, and in various jobs in the NHS and social services. He teaches in a Psychology Department, and has published research on political violence and persuasion, verbal and non-verbal communication, and disability. He now lives in Brighton with his family.