The Lost Detective Namatia Gokhale and is a poet and

and is a poet and professor of aesthetics

flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and festival tents around the UK

deserves a prize for the best cover photograph - the author seated in a deckchair totally naked except for this laptop' - the Spectator

an outraged cry against oppression

The Lost Detective Namatia Gokhale and is a poet andA summers afternoon. A tiny baby suddenly vanished from his pram, the mystery of what happened to him never solved. A young mother lost in grief. Twenty one years later, ex police detective Dan Hennessy is coming to terms with a loss of his own. When his neighbour disappears, and a nameless body turns up at a local solar farm, Dan is lured into a world of secrets reaching far into the past and with consequences for his future. Can he draw the clues