Manchester Book Award. 24 books. 1 winner. You decide.

BLOODLINE by KEVIN BROOKS

Finbar Black’s day is turned upside down when a crazy, beautiful girl bursts into the house with a gun and a bag full of cash.

Here we meet the Black family: four generations of schemers, liars, cheats and losers and, via a succession of twists and turns, we find out why she’s there.

As the police close in, deals are done, plans hatched and it becomes clear that loyalty is an alien concept to all generations of the Black family.