Trenches

Parker Bilal is the author of the Makana Investigations series, the third of which, The Ghost Runner, was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The Divinities, the first in his Crane & Drake London crime series, was published in 2019. Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub, the critically acclaimed literary novelist. Born in London, he has lived in a number of places, including the UK, Denmark, Spain and, currently, the Netherlands.@Parker_Bilal | jamalmahjoub.com

Parker Bilal has his finger on the racing pulse of London, a multicultural nexus of organised crime and terrorism whether you're in a swanky penthouse or on a sink estate. The miasma of corruption is inescapable; bile and rage make the prose sting. A senior cop remarks: 'It's a f***ed up world whichever way you look at it.' That's why we need and read excellent crime fiction like this