Blogs in January 1970

Easy Streets 1st January 1970

Overtones of a comedy of manners, this tells the story of the protagonist and his shady arrangement with Shale and Ember at the Monty Club. The cosy deal is shattered when there is a firebombing at the house of...

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Leap the Wild Water 1st January 1970

Megan Jones tries to carve a life of her own, in a community where women are neither equal nor free. Her brother, Morgan, is a man in torment: his Mam has died and he is now desperate to make...

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The Memory of Midnight 1st January 1970

One hot day in Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby is trapped in a wooden chest, and a horror of the stifling dark – and of the man who trapped her – dogs her for the rest of her life....

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The Retribution 1st January 1970

This is McDermid’s 25th book. Hill and Jordan are on the verge of leaving the Yorkshire city of Bradfield, where Jordan has run the major investigation team that cleared up so many serial-killer cases. Over the years, a provisional...

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Dead Man’s Grip (Roy Grace 7) 1st January 1970

Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two...

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