The colour of kerosene

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  • Published 20081107
  • ISBN: 9780733323935
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

IT HAD FELT wrong from the moment he’d picked up the fare outside the hotel on Marine Terrace.

‘Turn here,’ the man said.

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