Plague Times Trilogy A Lovely Way to Burn: Plague Times Trilogy 1 - Louise Welsh (Paperback) 01-01-2015 Short-listed for Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award 2014 (UK) and Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Writing Award 2014 (UK). Long-listed

As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime It doesn't look like murder in a city full of death. A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural causes. As roads out of London become gridlocked with people fleeing infection, Stevie's search for Simon's killers takes her in the opposite direction, into the depths of the dying city and a race with death. A Lovely Way to Burn is the first outbreak in the Plague Times trilogy. Chilling, tense and completely compelling, it's Louise Welsh writing at the height of her powers.