Primal Cut by Ed O'connor

Primal Cut by Ed O'connor

Before the days of the National Health Service and modern psychiatry, common wisdom called for brain paste - a mash of the pituitary glands of cow - as a remedy for mental illness. Doctors have forgotten; the general public has forgotten; but Bartholomew Garrod, of East London s Garrod s Family Butchers has not forgotten, and he is using more than just animals to treat his brother . . . he is murdering people. When a body is found, ripped apart and torn, although the slashings appear random, Detective Inspector Alison Dexter recognizes that the marks are actually butchers cuts of meats: the primal cuts. Meanwhile, in Cambridgeshire, a vicious bare-knuckle fight, results in a dead body, complete with bite wounds. Are the cases linked? As Alison Dexter investigates, she starts receiving threatening letters and body parts - human body parts. Time is running short and Dexter desperately needs to find the murderer . . . before he finds her.

'O'Connor writes with stylish, clipped prose and an assured pace' - Publishers Weekly 'Intelligent, well-written and with the can't-put-down quality that marks out a potential winner' Manchester Evening News

Ed O'Connor worked in London and New York as a merchant banker after university but left to concentrate on his writing. He lives in Maidstone, Kent

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ISBN 13	9780749081201
ISBN 10	0749081201
Title	Primal Cut
Author	Ed O'connor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Allison & Busby
Year published	2007-03-12
Number of pages	288
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