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Swear Down

Swear Down

Author(s): Russ Litten

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): Modern

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Content

HACKNEY and the wider area:
A young gang leader is found stabbed on a Hackney estate – but two people confess to the murder.Ndekwe, an ambitious, newly promoted Detective Sergeant within a subtly racist police force, believes the more obvious of the two confessions: from McKenzie, a teenager from the estate with a police record of juvenile crime.But why does Jack Shepherdson – an ex-merchant seaman in his sixties – come forward with his own confession? Is he covering for McKenzie, his colleague in the bar they worked at? Or is there more truth in his statement than Ndekwe at first believes?As we listen, with Ndekwe, to their stories – to the lives of the segregated and unheard – a heartbreaking and suspenseful story emerges.

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… a well rendered Hackney …. Rather than the investigation itself or the character of Ndekwe, who seems oddly page-bound, it is the unlikely friendship between the two suspects that is the emotional core...

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Lead Review

‘The unlikely friendship between the two suspects is the emotional core of Swear Down subtle, moving and disturbing’ Guardian’A furious and exhilarating novel that doesn’t relent until the very end’ –Catholic Herald

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