All Was Lost

Author: Steven Maxwell
Format: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 208 pages
Published: Pushkin Press, United Kingdom, 2022

Orla McCabe has found a case of money. Willing to do almost anything for a better life, she flees with her husband and baby daughter – and the money. Detectives Lynch and Carlin are investigating a botched human trafficking deal on the isolated northern moors. They find piles of bullet-riddled bodies, but no money. The owners of the cash begin to hunt, and soon a world of brutal violence envelops Orla and the detectives.

To secure her daughter’s future, Orla will never stop running. Now it’s a matter of who she drags into the dark with her.

Steven Maxwell is a PhD Creative Writing candidate and winner of the prestigious PhD Research Scholarship at Lancaster University. He lives in Wirral.