White City

*THE BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024 - THE TIMES* BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2024 - SUNDAY TIMES* BOOKS OF THE MONTH - THE GUARDIAN 'I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year' IAN RANKIN 'The best crime novel I've read this year' THE TIMES 'Quite breathtaking' DAILY MAIL 'Superb' THE GUARDIAN 'Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer' CHRIS WHITAKER 'A truly excellent crime novel' MAIL ON SUNDAY It's 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs. An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof. For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery. Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a