We first meet Jack Carrigan as a promising young musician on a post graduation holiday in Africa with three friends. Driving at night in Uganda, unsure of their route, they encounter a rebel force drunk on drugs and their own cruelty. We next see Jack, years later, now an inspector with the Metropolitan police. The two survivors of the incident meet regularly but are unable to discuss what occurred until Jack begins to investigate the murder of a renowned African woman who was studying at the London School of African and Oriental Studies. Carrigan has become a loner, unpopular with his colleagues because he is an expert at being the first detective at a crime scene to ensure that he will run the investigation. His work on this case takes on a terrible immediacy, pulling him into a London diaspora of rough communities, a largely invisible cauldron of illegal immigrants and fugitives. He discovers that the victim was researching the rise of African rebel groups and had discovered the hidden complicity of the current Ugandan government in a brutal campaign to silence dissent. Carrigan is soon caught between his obligation to follow the evidence wherever it leads and his superiors, concern that justice will not compensate for the potential costs to the British government. This combination of a bruising crime investigation competing against the hidden forces of powerful political and social interests makes for superior entertainment. The deeply satisfying mixture of memorable characters and urgent subject matter showcase a much-admired writer dancing deftly between the demands of a well composed procedural and artistic storytelling.

Stav Sherez
Stav Sherez is the author of five critically-acclaimed crime novels. The Intrusions, the third novel of the Carrigan & Miller series, won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. He has written for the Daily Telegraph and The Catholic Herald amongst others. He lives and works in London.                

• Aug 21 2013
  Book Browse: "Entertaining, compelling, yet addressing issues that stay with us..."
  
• Jul 30 2013
  The New York Times Book Review: "Carrigan is a complex character, someone well worth meeting again."
  
• Jul 11 2013
  Retiremove: "The mystery will keep you enthralled until the unexpected finale."
  
• Jul 11 2013
  Bookshelf Reviews: "Sherez...effectively communicates the difficulties of the city's multiculturalism, the challenges of assimilation, and the ongoing conflicts caused by Britains history of colonialism."
  
• Jul 5 2013
  Pulp Den: "A novel as powerful as this comes along rarely in the mystery field."
  
• Jul 3 2013
  A Dark Redemption shortlisted for Theakstons Award