The Burnt Moor

The gripping new thriller featuring DCI Diana Walker: a gruesome murder leads DCI Diana Walker into the heart of Sheffield's seedy underbelly
'One of the most original and exciting new voices in crime fiction' - David Peace
'Everything I love in a crime novel - passion, interesting and rooted characters and a great story' - Ann Cleeves
When a man's remains are discovered on the moors and the body of a woman is found in an arson fire in Sheffield, a strange connection between the two cases has DCI Diana Walker digging into Sheffield's criminal underworld.
The new case makes for the perfect distraction from Diana's personal life - She should be settling into her new relationship, but something is keeping her from committing. While she navigates living with her Kenyan grandmother, Diana's relationship with her mother grows even more strained.
As she tries to keep the brass and the press at bay, Diana searches for answers. The truth is worse than she could have ever imagined.

Nina Bhadreshwar was born in Ipswich and raised in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, during the Yorkshire Ripper years and the Miners' Strike. At nineteen, she trained and worked as a journalist at her local paper before setting up her own magazine, The Real State. Relocating to Watts, Los Angeles, following a tour with a Mexican-American theatre group, she covered the situation of the gangs post-truce and became the press officer and biographer of Death Row Records. She returned to the UK in her mid-twenties and re-trained as a teacher. Now, Nina is doing a PhD at Dundee University while writing her second novel. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Crime Fiction MA. The Day of the Roaring won Little Brown's UEA Crime Fiction award in 2022 and is her first novel.