As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attacks occur in a small northern town renowned for being a bohemian backwater.
As the national media descends, local journalist Roddy Mace attempts to tell the story, but finds the very nature of truth brought into question. He turns to disgraced detective James Brindle for help.
When further attacks occur the shattered community becomes the focus of an accelerating media that favours immediacy over truth. Murder and myth collide in a folk-crime story about place, identity and the tangled lives of those who never leave.
Review
As good as anything being written in Britain today -- HORATIO CLARE
Layers of landscape, myth and the hidden underbelly of everyday life outside of the metropolis are built up as the plot unfolds and the darkness grows. By now you should all know how good a writer Myers is. If you don't, These Darkening Days will be more than enough to convince you - LOUD & QUIET
A powerful novel by a writer who has found his subject and the voice that best expresses it . He could be Yorkshire's Iain Sinclair as well as its Cormac McCarthy - BOOKMUNCH
Subtle and compelling, controlled and atmospheric - perfect, in fact, for the long dark nights ahead - MORNING STAR
He's James Ellroy with a flat cap and a terrier -- JOHN MITCHINSON
The collective blood pressure of the Yorkshire tourist board must ratchet up several notches every time that Myers publishes a new novel, but for the rest of us this is gripping stuff - THE CRACK
Everything here, from the now-familiar landscapes to the description of life at the local newspaper and the behaviour of parachuted-in Sun reporters, is note perfect.But the book goes much further, delving into society's hysterical narcissism and the way its tendrils snake all the way back into myth, legend and half-forgotten community history. There's no question that this is a superb piece of work..a fantastic eye for landscape and great political and cultural insight.it's funny, brutal and properly thrilling - THRILL FILTER
The writing is stunning, from the occasional sentence which catches you and brings you up short - The streetlights wear soft halos in the mist - through to the ability to evoke the grittiness of this northern town in a few words. Sometimes I found myself going back and rereading sections, just for the pleasure the words gave. In places it's almost poetic. And it's all brilliant - BOOK BAG
Book Description
A new edition of the second instalment in the series of Benjamin Myers' cult classic Northern crime saga
About the Author
Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His novel The Gallows Pole received a Roger Deakin Award and won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Beastings won the Portico Prize for Literature and Pig Iron won the Gordon Burn Prize, while Richard was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. He has also published poetry, crime novels and short fiction, while his journalism has appeared in publications including, among others, the Guardian, New Statesman, Caught by the River and New Scientist.
He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.
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