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A Death At The Palace

A Death At The Palace

Author(s): M H Baylis

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): Modern

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Novel set in Wood Green. The third novel from journalist and scriptwriter MH Baylis, A Death at the Palace is set in and around Wood Green, a largely unloved and often overlooked corner of north London colonised by successive waves of immigrants who rub along with varying degrees of success. Through its cosmopolitan streets limps Rex Tracey, a journalist who “would be forty before his Oystercard needed its next top-up”, and who has fallen from the heights of Fleet Street to working for the local rag, where he spends his time necking Polish beer and investigating an anti-immigration group. When the body of his Lithuanian ex-girlfriend Milda is discovered, he becomes a murder suspect and is forced into some detective work of his own. Meanwhile, retired chiropodist and camera buff Arthur Chapman lives a life of quiet desperation, caring for his dying wife and struggling to keep the demons of his past at bay… Laura Wilson

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With an appealing protagonist, a cast of vivid characters and a powerful sense of place, this is an excellent crime novel as well as a sharply observed slice of contemporary London life – and...

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