by Jenni Fagan
First published 2019
Seventeen-year-old Levi lives alone in an Edinburgh council flat, surviving on wit and survival instincts. When an encrypted message arrives from his imprisoned father—a man he's never met—Levi is thrust into a dangerous investigation of his family's fractured history. The message contains coordinates to a hidden location and cryptic references to a decades-old crime that someone powerful wants to keep buried. As Levi begins tracking down fragments of his father's story, he realizes he's not just uncovering a mystery—he's walking into a network of political corruption that could destroy everything he knows. Each revelation brings him closer to understanding why his mother disappeared years ago and what really happened the night his family fell apart. But some truths come with a price higher than anyone is willing to pay.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, political-thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Edinburgh
79 pages · Hardcover · Tangerine Press