Superintendent Robert Blayde Books

The summer's day in question is the 24 hours of one June 26, as endured by a police department in the north of England. This masterful police procedural is more convincing than those of Joseph Wambaugh--because the events of June 26 are all too terribly believable.

In a small village in the north of England, an elderly woman is brutally hanged with piano wire, and a detective’s hunt for the killer uncovers, instead, the shocking double – and triple – identify of the victim. Now, assassin and murdered imposter, connected by horrors long buried with the ashes of World War II, present an agonizing present-day is not punishment at all, perhaps, the one that fits the crime? Sombre and powerful, ‘An Urge for Justice’ does not shy away from exposing past and present wickedness. Dark ghosts haunt the book until the final pages, where an astonishing, terrible truth is finally brought to light. John Wainwright, master of the police procedural, proves once again that as Newsday said, he is “one of the best in the business.” ‘An Urge for Justice’ is perhaps his most gripping, psychologically brilliant novel to date. Book Dust Jacket

Traces the life of a tough and ambitious policeman, chief superintendent Robert Blayde, who must track down his own brother for murder