Product Description

Sometimes the worst nightmares happen in broad daylight! An utterly gripping novel for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham, from a rising star in the crime genre. A woman is found brutally murdered on a quiet housing estate, her tongue and eyes ritualistically gouged out. Children are being abducted and then returned to their families days later without a scratch and with no knowledge or where they have been - or with whom. If DC Laura McGanity thought moving from London to sleepy Lancashire was taking the easy option then she can think again. Already worried about uprooting young son Bobby to follow her reporter boyfriend Jack Garrett back to his hometown, she must quickly get a handle on these mystifying cases terrifying the people of Blackley - without putting the local officers' noses out of joint. Meanwhile, restless Jack is itching to get back to his writing and the cases provide the perfect opportunity to do so. But as he delves deeper into them, he finds murky connections between the two crimes and skeletons buried in the most unlikely of closets. Most astonishing of all, he meets a man who 'paints' the future - terrible events come to him in vivid dreams which he then puts onto canvas. This 'precognition' is not so much a gift as a curse and to Jack it becomes terrifyingly that many people, including his own family, are in danger!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25967 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Review
Praise for Fallen Idols: 'Fallen Idols has been hailed as a stunning debut'. The Blackpool Gazette 'Fallen Idols!has all the hallmarks of a great read for crime-thriller fans with celebrity killings, conspiracies, revenge and even a hint of romance'. The Weekly News '... a whirlwind of a novel...a serious contender to match the giants of the crime fiction world' Crimesquad.com

About the Author
Born above a shoe shop in the mid-1960s, Neil spent most of his childhood in Wakefield in West Yorkshire as his father pursued a career in the shoe trade. This took Neil to Bridlington in his teens, where he failed all his exams and discovered that doing nothing soon turns into long-term unemployment. Re-inventing himself, Neil returned to education in his 20s, qualified as a solicitor when he was 30, and now spends his days in the courtroom and his evenings writing crime fiction

Customer Reviews

Excellent British crime read!
This is the first book I have read by Neil White and it will not be the last. I love books by Mark Billingham, Karin Slaughter, Tess Gerritsen etc and now I have another author to add to my most wanted list. This book sails along at a great pace. It isn't cheesy or predictable at all and kept me totally gripped. I think Jack and Laura and Sam are great characters and hope we see more of them!

UNPUTDOWNABLE!!!!!!!!!!! Does not disappoint - Crime Thriller
This is the first Novel of Neil White's I have read and it most certainly will not be the last.
The book gives a thoroughly gripping read.
The characters jump to life.
It is based around 3 main characters.
Jack - (a Reporter)
Laura (Jacks girlfriend who just so happens to be cop who is also a mother)
and
Sam (a Lawyer)
A Spate of Gruesome murders take place.
Meanwhile there are Children going missing who are snatched in the street and then reappear unharmed and having no memory of where they have been.
An Old Man has dreams of the Murders - Is he the murderer?
You'll have to get the book to find out!!!

I have now started to read his first book Fallen Idols of how Jack and Laura Met and I can not wait for his third book to come out - you get a bit of a taster at the end of Lost Souls!

mjv2419
After reading the first novel Lost Souls I was keen to read this book to see if it was as good. Lost souls was a brilliant read and had you gripped from the start, a must for all crime lovers. If you enjoy your crime writers like Billingham then this is a must for you.