<DIV><p>Named one of the Best Crime Books of the Year by the Guardian, <I>Weirdo</I> is an atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the case to discover that she may not have acted alone . . .</p><p>Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer’s evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their parents.</p><p>Twenty years later, new forensic evidence suggests that Corinne didn’t act alone. Private investigator Sean Ward ? whose promising career as a detective with the Metropolitan Police was cut short by a teenage gangster with a gun ? reopens the case, and discovers a town full of secrets, and a community that has always looked after its own.</p></DIV>