A Killing Sin by K.H. Irvine

Read July 2019. Published 4th July 2019.

This is post-Brexit London, in the very near future.
To live in Britain now means that you are profiled and your every move is tracked by the authorities.
Racial tension is at a high and parts of London have become no-go areas, where Sharia law reigns.

Amala Hackeem,  lapsed Muslim, tech genius and controversial comedian finds herself reluctantly donning a burqa and heading to meet a women's group in the Sharia ruled Tower Hamlets - out of loyalty to her younger brother Aafa. She should have listened to the warnings in her head.

Millie Stephenson, university professor and expert on radicalisation, is heading to Downing Street to brief the Prime Minister and Home Secretary. Millie is about to be involved in a terrorist incident of epic proportions - one that will get personal.

Ella Russell, investigative journalist, is onto a big story about corruption at the highest levels of British politics. She is about to learn the true cost of the war on terror.

Three friends, who have been like sisters since their university days in Edinburgh, whose lives are about to change forever.

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Wow, what a book! I devoured it in a single day and can honestly say it is one of the best political thrillers I have ever read.

This is set in a near-dystopian future so close to real that you can almost taste it. The current political climate is leading exactly where this book dares to go and it is terrifying.

This is a thrilling debut novel that explores some controversial issues - terrorism, radicalisation, security, religious freedom, persecution, civil liberties, isolated communities, capitalism, human rights, political corruption.... if it has been in the headlines in recent years, you will find it examined here in these pages.

I am not going to give away any spoilers about the plot - other to say that it has one of the best twists of recent times - because this is a book you simply have to read. If this is not one of the biggest books of this summer, I will be very surprised.

I love the fact that K.H. Irvine wrote this book as a 50th birthday to herself, and I am mightily grateful that she did.

This book will pick you up by the scruff of the neck, knock you about and then kick you in the gut for a final flourish!

Buy it now - you will not be sorry!