Tokyo, 1886.

Chino Kunio, a male courtesan in the infamous Yoshiwara neighbourhood - The Nightless City -discovers his one and only client, a British diplomat, dead and himself in the frame for the man's grisly murder.



Trying to save Chino from the judicial blade are his friend, samurai rebel turned reckless drunk Shimura Shingo, under-pressure police inspector Tokuda Reiji, and the victim's wife, Fi Gordon, a Scottish teacher living a stifled life in the foreign concession who is seeking her own answers.



But as more foreigners are slain, dredging up the shadow of shipwreck that lead to a diplomatic scandal, Chino's only hope may be to escape The Nightless City for good, before it explodes into violence between belligerent westerners and nationalist bully boys.



Callum McSorley is a writer based in Glasgow, where he grew up. His debut thriller, Squeaky Clean, the first book in the Alison McCoist thriller series, was published to great acclaim and went on to win the prestigious McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish Crime Book of the Year. The Nightless City is the first in a new series of historical thrillers set in nineteenth-century Japan.



Callum McSorley has done it again: a glorious, compulsive, tumbling, page-turning rollercoaster of a thriller. The Nightless City has slashing swords, illicit liaisons, shocking secrets and gallons of spilled blood. What more could you ask for?