The Yeare's Midnight

As inspector John Underwood and his team frantically try to piece together the last hours of Olympic athlete Lucy Harrington, events take an extraordinary turn. Harrington's murderer contacts English Literature lecturer Heather Stussman and challenges her to explain his actions to the police. But not until another woman is murdered does Stussman realise that the key to the killer's terrifying motive lies buried in the works of a port who has been dead for nearly four hundred years...



ED O'CONNOR studied History at Cambridge University before moving over to Oxford University to take an MPhil in International Relations. He then worked in London and New York as an investment banker but left to concentrate on his writing. In 2002 his first novel, The Yeare's Midnight, was published by Constable and Robinson and was followed in 2003 by Acid Lullaby, both of which were shortlisted for awards. Now working as the Head of the History department at a local school, Ed lives in Maidstone, Kent, with his wife and two young daughters.