Thought this was a new one, but I have read it before. Worth a re-read through as Robinson is one of my favourite writers. His scope is widening beyond Yorkshire, although the book is rooted and takes place mainly there.
An immigrant child is found murdered in a skip in Eastvale, and the police are pretty baffled as to who this is and any motive. Meanwhile in a big parallel plot Zelda, the East European girlfriend of Ray (Annie’s father) is trying to track down the leaders of the gang who forced her into prostitution as a child.
The plot elements gradually come together with the Albanian mafia involved both in prostitution and county line drug dealing in the UK. The murder of the immigrant boy proves to have a more localised origin.
Very good, as ever.
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