re:mote voices

They beat him unconscious with lengths of timber, and then continued kicking him as he lay on the ground. The girls had lured him into the building with the promise of sex; it was what the man had come looking for and what he had found.

-i have just read this extract of Cradle Song by Robert Edric, it strikes me as one to watch for. there is something about the tone of this crime novel makes me curious. described in the blurb as the first in a trilogy set in hull, a series of dark and modern crime novels. it came out in hard back last month in the UK, i suspect that if i do decide to buy it i'll be waiting for the paperback.