Ghosts - David Imrie

It's 2003 and Thomas Harrison has accidentally specialised as an East End gangland ghostwriter.

Hired for crime boss Danny Decker's autobiography, he reluctantly takes up residence in his subject's home, a converted Victorian prison island on The Thames.

Yet all the while Detective Chief Inspector Harry 'Hangman' Hughes of the Met is closing in on Danny for an unsolved murder, and an upcoming change in the law is a ticking bomb.

Haunted by the past and trapped by secrets, something's going to have to give on Penitent's Isle.

Mixing mystery, crime, romance and the paranormal, Ghosts is the second novel by literary editor David Imrie.