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Blogs in January 1970

Don’t I know You? 1st January 1970

In Part 1 it is 1976 and twelve years old Steven Engels comes home to his family’s Upper West Side apartment only to discover the corpse of his single mother Gina who has been stabbed to death. A year...

Portrait of a Spy 1st January 1970

Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara,his Italian wife are still trying to retire to the English countryside and really go back to art restoration. Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel...

Sutton 1st January 1970

One of the most notorious criminals in American history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and...

TransAtlantic 1st January 1970

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being...

Jazz 1st January 1970

Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet – who is given to...