Blogs in February 2024

Prima Facie 13th February 2024

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and winning.   But an unexpected event forces her to confront the patriarchal power of the...

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Murder At the Fair 20th May 2021

Summer flowers, warm sunshine, a maypole dance and… is that another murder? A tricky case is afoot for Lady Swift! Summer, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, the best amateur sleuth in the country, is delighted to be in charge of...

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Bageye at the Wheel 1st January 1970

Back in the early 1970s, Luton’s population is mainly white and working-class, with a handful of Afro-Caribbean families. Among them are the Grants and, in the person of the eponymous Bageye, they have a formidable paterfamilias. Bageye takes his...

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The Yips 1st January 1970

2006 is a foreign country: they do things differently there. Tiger Woods’ reputation is entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist yet. Storm-clouds of a different kind are gathering above the bar of Luton’s less than...

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Blood Sympathy 1st January 1970

PI can mean many things, but can it really mean a balding, middle-agd redundant lathe operator from a high rise in Luton, Beds? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can. His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you’d have to be crazy to hire...

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