Mystery of the Crooked Man

Tom Spencer is an expat Londoner currently living and working in Montgomery, Alabama. He has published creative work in various journals, including a story nominated for a Pushcart Prize and another shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Prize. Under his real name, Tom Perrin, he has published an academic book on twentieth-century fiction, as well as having written for the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere.

'Cosy crime fiction does not come much cleverer or more angry than Tom Spencer's first novel...neatly plotted, funny, whacky and very sad indeed'