Sober and disillusioned with London, tabloid journalist Stephen Larkin reluctantly accepts an assignment to cover a gangland funeral back home in Newcastle. Several years earlier he had left sick and disgusted, vowing never to return, but the pull of the city, and the promise of a juicy story, finally persuades him to return. While there, Larkin's old flame Charlotte asks him to check out the alleged suicide of her friend Mary - a course of action that will leave Larkin bruised, battered and with some painful memories of the city he was trying to forget. Dark, compelling and relentless, Mary's Prayer is a razor-edged crime debut from a powerful new voice in crime fiction.
- ISBN10 0749005858
- ISBN13 9780749005856
- Publish Date 10 December 2001 (first published 10 July 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 May 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Allison & Busby
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 254
- Language English