All the lonely people

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Harry's search for the truth takes him into the city's sinister underbelly of shady streets and sleazy clubs, where he confronts an obsessive killer - and has his illusions about Liz shattered forever.

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Library Journal Review

The wife of Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin left him two years ago for a shadily rich gym owner. Now Liz shows up on Harry's doorstep, asking for shelter: she is estranged from the gym owner, but he's upset about her new boyfriend and might kill her. Sure enough, someone murders Liz the next day in a back alley, and suspicion falls on Harry, who subsequently vows to find the perpetrator. Nicely crafted prose pervades, complete with court scenes, petty criminals, seedy surrounds, and a few pigheaded cops. This is the first series title to be published in the United States. For fans of British crime fiction. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

Martin Edwards's first novel of marital woe and murder. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

This first installment of the Harry Devlin mystery series appeared in Britain in 1991 but is being published in the U.S. for the first time. It introduces attorney Devlin, whose clients are residents of the bottom levels of society. Harry is separated from his wife when the story begins, although the day before Harry's thirty-second birthday, she turns up on his doorstep. He isn't particularly hopeful of a reconciliation, which is good since the very next day she turns up dead in an alley. Harry finds himself the prime suspect in her murder. Can he dig himself out of this hole? The author, an attorney himself, knows whereof he writes, and it shows: this is a cracking good read, a first novel that feels like it was written by an old hand. Recommended for all fans of legal dramas and especially those readers who like their British mysteries a little on the seedy side. --David Pitt Copyright 2003 Booklist