Acid Row Walters, Minette

A council estate in southern England. A rumour about a paedophile living on Acid Row. A botched police raid. What starts as whispers becomes a riot, and what was meant to be justice becomes a mob baying for blood. Minette Walters drops you into the heart of urban chaos — a neighbourhood where old grudges, poverty, and fear collide in one explosive afternoon. She cuts between residents as the violence escalates: a doctor trapped in her surgery, a boy with secrets, families turning on each other. This is social commentary with a thriller's pulse, brutal and unflinching. Walters wrote this after the UK's real-life paedophile riots, and it shows — every page crackles with tension and moral ambiguity. For readers who like their crime fiction raw and uncomfortably real.