Blogs in January 1970

Chamber Music 1st January 1970

Henry Bane is dead. Long Live Henry Bane, his son. It’s Manchester, 1998, and the funeral party is interrupted by a woman from Bane’s past. Róisín is back in Manchester and back in Bane’s life after an eight-year absence...

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The Damage 1st January 1970

There’s a thought that keeps me awake at night: I have to be lucky every time, they only have to get lucky once.’ David Blake is a worried man. He should be enjoying the high life now he’s Newcastle’s...

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Wife in the North 1st January 1970

Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith’s husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow? Pregnant with number 3 Judith is about to discover...

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Pantheon 1st January 1970

Set in 1940, James Zennor is an Oxford don who was wounded in the Spanish Civil War, and is in no fit state to fight the Nazis. His wife and son vanish and he eventually finds leads that take...

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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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