Three Burials Av Anders Lustgarten

<b>A <i>THE TIMES</i> BEST CRIME BOOK OF 2024<br><br>‘Extraordinary . . . both a madcap crime caper and a savage state-of-the-nation novel . . . Anders Lustgarten writes like a man possessed: bursting with energy’ <i>The Times</i><br><br>An electrifying wild ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten</b><br><br>Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the badlands of South-East England. She''s never felt more <i>Thelma & Louise</i> in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead.<br><br>How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? Pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern Britain?<br><br>Thrilling, radical and darkly comedic, Anders Lustgarten''s open-hearted storm of a book explores pressing political concerns with clear-sightedness and holds a mirror up to contemporary Britain.<br><br><b>‘An irreverent, tragicomic tour de force as absurd and as urgent as hope . . . Lustgarten’s novel is comedy as weapon and deep moral inquiry’ <i>Guardian</i></b>