'The Final Vow' with M.W. Craven

Winner of the 2023 Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year returns to Verey Books with the next Washington Poe novel.

We’re delighted that Cumbrian author of international repute, M.W. Craven is back for a Words on Wednesday event to celebrate the launch of his new book ‘The Final Vow.’

 An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe . . . 

A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride, taken out on her wedding day, seconds after she slipped on her new ring. It was brutal and bloody, but she was not the first victim – nor the last. Now, the body tally stands at 17 and the nation is in a state of panic. People are terrified, not knowing where the sniper will strike next. All they know with certainty is that he will. 

So, Washington Poe is called back from the wilderness to be reunited with Tilly Bradshaw, for they are the only team capable of taking on this killer. 

But how do you stop an unstoppable assassin, who never misses his mark and never makes a mistake? A killer who has the whole country as his personal hunting ground… 

Multi-award-winning author M.W. Craven was born in Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle. He joined the army at sixteen, leaving ten years later to complete a social work degree. Seventeen years after taking up a probation officer role in Cumbria, at the rank of assistant chief officer, he became a full-time author. He is an instant Sunday Times bestseller and, for his Cumbria-set Washington Poe series, a recipient of the 2019 Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, the 2022 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023. The series has now been translated into twenty-nine languages