Accidents Will Happen (A Mask Noir Title) - Softcover

By day, England's Julian Rathbone is very much the serious novelist: he was twice a finalist for that country's prestigious Booker Prize. By night he becomes the author of political, darkly quirky thrillers like Accidents Will Happen, published as a handsome paperback original. Renata Fechter is a dedicated police officer in a German city very much like Bremen. Because of a fight with her corrupt boss, Renata is put in charge of the Eco-Cops, a crew of misfits and losers who investigate (and often sweep under the rug) crimes involving industrial pollution. The murder of a gay activist starts off a complicated story of industrial intrigue. Fechter's sexy, somewhat shady Italian lover turns out to be involved in the illicit dumping of nuclear waste, and soon Renata is up to her neck in the mess. Another good Rathbone thriller, Sand Blind, is also available in paperback.

Julian Rathbone was born in 1935 and lives in Hampshire. He is the author of King Fisher Lives and Joseph, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His thrillers include Sand Blind, The Euro-Killers, The Pandora Option and ZDT, which won the German Crime Writing Prize. His short story 'Some Sunny Day' was awarded the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award in 1993. His writing has been translated into fourteen languages.knowingparty