{"product_id":"the-winter-visitor-9781529431735","title":"The Winter Visitor","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssex, February, 1991. The weather is biting cold. Everyone would rather be somewhere warmer, which is why it's a big surprise when a wanted drug smuggler, Bruce Hopkins, risks a return to his old haunts in Colchester after a decade long exile on the Costa del Sol. Lured back by a letter from the wife Hopkins left behind, no one is more surprised than him when he finds himself abducted and stripped bare only to be sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The police wonder if it could be retaliation from a Spanish gang, sending a warning to their English counterparts? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDS Daniel Kenton is teamed up with the unorthodox DS Brazier to investigate a crime wave which takes in not only the murder of an expat dope smuggler, but a sophisticated arson attack on a Norman church and the unexpected suicide of an ageing florist. Could there possibly be a thread that connects them? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten with the humour and period detail that have become his trademark, and set in the badlands of his beloved Essex, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e is James Henry at his inimitable best.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Henry is the pen name for James Gurbutt. He has written four prequels to R.D Wingfield's Frost series and three Essex-based novels featuring DI Nick Lowry. He works in publishing and lives in Essex.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911848857874,"sku":"9781529431735","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4859f1ff-1ee8-493c-a4a1-d88920e071bd.jpg?v=1738757404","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-winter-visitor-9781529431735","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}