Sundry CreditorsIn Sundry Creditors we are presented with a Midlands engineering firm in transition. The firms Chairman, Gustavus Lang, a paternal, Quaker style employer, keen on Works Councils and treating his staff like human beings, dies early on in the story and the reins are passed to his younger brother, Walter. A ruthless, hard nosed businessman, Walter wastes no time in trying to seize control of the company by becoming the majority shareholder.

In emotional and physical turmoil he becomes a self-pitying recluse

Can they uncover the truth in time to prevent a massacre

and sees no way out

sinister cults and disturbing secret lives

Ragnar Jnasson writes with a chilling

His grasp on what he once was and what he once knew

Reading his prose is like running a slow hand down cold silk

and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul

who is safe in a nearby town and has given birth to a son

others it transforms

SIX YEARS LATER

including Eily's