Seven Suppers at Sallow Ferry

About this book

In 2071, justice is a television show, and seventeen-year-old Wren Adebayo-Hale was its brightest star until a leaked recording proved her verdicts were fed through an earpiece and that a man she condemned had been innocent. Disgraced, she is sent to serve a year in Sallow Ferry, a damp estuary town whose heart is the Warming House, a chapel kitchen where everyone eats the evening ration and nobody is asked their crimes. On her ninth night, the town's hated ration auditor is found dead in the kitchen's cold store, latched in from outside. The Ministry gives Sallow Ferry seven suppers to name a killer or lose its kitchen. The obvious suspect is the cook who took Wren in. And the town, half mocking and half desperate, asks the fallen Junior to do what she did on television: find the guilty one.