Blogs in January 1970

Not Safe 1st January 1970

This is a short book, in fact a novella and the subject is the murder of an asylum seeker. DC Tina Barraclough investigates and as she already works with asylum seekers, she feels that she has sense of the...

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Disputed Land 1st January 1970

Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered family settle in to their first Christmas together for some years,...

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The Swimmer 1st January 1970

Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer. Ben...

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Wild Designs 1st January 1970

Althea is the mother of three strong-minded children – one of whom is a Buddhist – and owner of a finicky dog named Bozo. Saddled with too large a house (albeit in a beautiful Cotswold village), worrisome mortgage payments,...

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A Cold Season 1st January 1970

Cass is building a new life for herself and her young son Ben after the death of her soldier husband Pete, returning to the village where she lived as a child. But their idyllic new home is not what...

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