Penny Deacon: 2 books

Follow-up to A Kind of Puritan, Deacon’s acclaimed first futurecrime novel: Humility’s back at Midway Port and ruthless patriarch Morgan Vinci wants her to find out why a man’s hanged himself on board one of the boats in his new marina. Just to complicate things, Humility’s mother wants her to...

Humility's a low-tech woman in a hi-tech world - but she's not going to give up until she knows who killed the guy everyone said was harmless. The mystery leads her to the cruellest parts of the city where people kill for the cost of a meal. It's a world where she's not sure anyone is who they claim to be, and where one death leads to another... and the next one could be hers!