Restless Coffins

'Page turning historical detective fiction at its finest.' – DERMOT O’LEARY'This is terrific crime fiction – evocative, socially aware and gripping – and JT Ellington is a compelling protagonist.' – MARK BILLINGHAMA HAUNTED MAN. A BURIED PAST. A JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS.'Brother, a dead body can't run from a coffin, but their spirit sure as hell can try.'1967, Bristol. Life is tough for JT Ellington, ex-cop and reluctant private eye. He's still trading in favours, helping those scared of the police or trying to stay one step ahead of the law.But when news arrives of a tragedy that's unfolded thousands of miles away, JT's life gets even tougher. He needs to journey home to Barbados to pay his final respects – but first he must travel to New York, where his cousin Vic is boss of a criminal empire.On Harlem's mean streets, JT is fast entangled with Evangeline – a smooth as velvet Black Panther – along with Pigfoot, a Bajan too flash with his knife. As the underworld draws him in, JT discovers the extent of Vic's criminal activities – a web of violence that stretches to Barbados and back, and connects him to the deaths of JT’s beloved wife and daughter.Embroiled in a world of drugs, corruption, voodoo and the legacy of slavery, can JT escape the demons of his past as he returns to the island of his birth?