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MARLON JAMES MAYA SONDHI

A BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR, James arrives on TV with a debut series described as a “vivid, blistering slice of contemporary noir,” told in six parts through the eyes of six different people. Commissioned by Channel 4 and HBO, Get Millie Black introduces Millie-Jean Black, a detective who swaps her troubled life in London to work missing persons cases for the Jamaican police s in the ngston ntations of the mes’s r A Brief ck Wolf force. She soon picks up the trail of an investigation that begins in the steaming streets of downtown Kingston and heads up to the hill plantations of the post-colonial elite and eventually propels her back to the UK. James’s novels include John Crow’s Devil, The Book of Night Women, Booker winner A Brief History of Seven Killings and Black Leopard, Red Wolf.