Blogs in January 1970

The Last Train to Scarborough 1st January 1970

One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind… It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It’s not so much...

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The Legend of Lady MacLaoch 1st January 1970

A legendary love, an unforgiving curse, and the discovery of a lifetime . . . Centuries ago a vengeful curse buried itself deep into the history of the MacLaoch clan and become a legendary tale told by all those...

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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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White Nights (Shetland Quartet 2) 1st January 1970

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim – a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the...

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The Welsh Girl 1st January 1970

In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess: in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city: and in a nearby...

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