The City and the City

When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Besel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borl of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borl must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and ‘1984’, ‘The City and The City’ is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.