Killer Tune
You can order the book from Amazon.co.uk now.
The hottest tracks have the deadliest rhythm
A fifteen-year-old boy firebombs a house as he listens to Vivaldi’s Winter Concerto splicing behind a red hot R ‘n’ B track.
A veteran musician is found dead in an alley with the pulse of an old time reggae classic playing in his pocket.
Rap sensation, Lord Tribulation, discovers his newfound stardom threatened when he finds himself in the middle of both incidents. His music is accused of inciting the firebombing and the dead musician is his father.
With the beat of the media and government blasting down his neck, LT’s search for the truth about his father’s death takes him back to an old flame and on the retro trail to 1976.
A time when music was politics and politics was music.
A time when the heat-drenched streets of Notting Hill burst into open rebellion.
A time that that could lead to his own murder.
Audio Book
Killer Tune is now available in an unabridged audio book. Narrated by Ben Onwukwe and published by Whole Story Audio Books. You can purchase this directly from the Whole Story Audio Books' website. Below you can hear a sample of Killer Tune's audio book;
Large Print
Killer Tune is also available in Large Print.
It is published by W. F. Howes Ltd.
Dutch Publication
And finally Killer Tune has hit the Dutch reading market. It is fully translated into the Dutch language.
Reviews
Dreda Say Mitchell confirms her position as a hot new name in crime writing with this taunt novel.
As good as it gets….Mitchell is English fiction’s brightest new voice.
Killer Tune is a sharply observed, incisive and moving story of radical politics, conflicting loyalties and unfinished business.
Brilliant – a gripping roller-coaster for the reader.
Mitchell’s plot is elaborate but tightly played, with a backbeat of racial abuse. Killer Tune lays the breezy musical name-checking of Hornby’s High Fidelity over a well-crafted murder mystery.
Dreda Say Mitchell is an exciting new talent and her second novel shows her distinctive take on current urban noir…The narrative throbs with energy and has a refreshing directness.
Publishing folklore has it that second novels are generally weaker than their predecessors – not KILLER TUNE – it makes it encouragingly clear that Dreda Say Mitchell will be a figure in the crime-writing world for the foreseeable future.
An interesting, original novel, even if you don’t get half the references and in real life would block your ears to the noise.
One that will be remembered from 2007... Achingly, hip, cool and all the other 'street' superlatives you can muster, it's a work of pure genius!
Killer Tune is an original and intelligently crafted read that will have you gripped from start to finish.
Red hot. Easily one of the best books I’ve read this year.
Fast-paced, multi-layered, suspense-filled and intriguing.
You can almost touch the characters they are that well-written.