Blackpool PI Mike Grady sits back after concluding what seemed an easy matrimonial. Job done. Case closed. But three masked men drag him from his bedsit, beat him and dump him by Marton Mere, with a warning to mind his own business. But into what and whose business has he stuck his nose? Mike is puzzled. And not a little pissed off. Not one to let things be, once out of hospital Mike is on the trail of the baseball bat crew and whoever hired them. And it's not long before they are back after him. Armed and decidedly dangerous. Marton Mere, the first of Alan Tootill's Blackpool Novels, introduces us to his vision of a town fuelled by crime, greed and lust. British noir for the twenty-first century.