The Rags of Time by Peter Grainger - ISBN: 9781804961476
Paperback
DC Smith sees the whole picture, even when others miss the truth.

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    9 June 2026

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Summary

A million-copy-selling crime writer comes into print for the first time.

In the sixth book of the DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series, other detectives are content to connect the dots of a case. DC Smith paints a whole picture.

Mark Randall lay dead in a field near Lowacre long before Smith had done what he had to do in Belfast. By the time he went back to work, the investigation was well underway. “It’s not my case” he says more than once, and he really doesn’t need it…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781804961476
ISBN-10:1804961477
Author:Peter Grainger
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Penguin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:9 June 2026
Weight:258g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Series:A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Once I was ensconced in Kings Lake, in the company of Smith and his team, I didn’t want to leave … What sets Grainger’s books apart from the typical police procedural is the fully realised characters, who appear to live in a gentler world, on a time continuum that makes sense, progressing and evolving from book to book. * Financial Times *The books are comforting, the writing is subtle and the plots are gripping. * The Times *

About The Author

Peter Grainger

Peter Grainger is the ‘creator of the greatest fictional sleuth you’ve probably never heard of’ (FT magazine). A former sixth-form English teacher, Peter is the author of 23 self-published novels, 19 of which are now scheduled for release by major British and North American publishers. Peter lives with his wife, sometimes a grandson and a dog in a cottage in the Cambridgeshire fens. He travels as often as possible to the Norfolk coast he once called home.

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