{"product_id":"the-winter-visitor","title":"The Winter Visitor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the New Angle Prize for Literature 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Essex, 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e DS 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55020396380503,"sku":"9781529431742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/14739143482732.jpg?v=1789388544","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/the-winter-visitor","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}