Nineteen Seventy Four
Christmas bombs and Lucky Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Yorkshire, Christmas 1974. Edward Dunford, North of England Crime Correspondent, has been sent to cover the case of the missing girl Clare Kemplay. He's convinced she's been...
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Christmas bombs and Lucky Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Yorkshire, Christmas 1974. Edward Dunford, North of England Crime Correspondent, has been sent to cover the case of the missing girl Clare Kemplay. He's convinced she's been murdered. When the little girl turns up dead in a ditch with swan's wings stitched into her back, Eddie's instincts prove right. But standing between him and the truth is a society riddled with corruption and brutality. Getting answers will mean a toss-up between his sanity and his life. Winter 1974's looking like a real season in hell.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781847245359 (1847245358)
Publisher: Quercus Books
Edition language: English
Series: Red Riding Quartet (#1)
When a little girl goes missing, crime reporter Eddie Dunford is on the case. Eddie finds a pattern between the girl's disappearance and others. Where will the trail lead and will Eddie have anything left when he gets there?There's a greasy spoon close to my house that serves something called The Me...
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Nineteen Seventy-Four is about Edward Dunford, a crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post, covering the murder of a young girl. His search for the truth gets him in a lot of trouble, and I'm really not saying that lightly, ho...
Extremely dark, with characters who were particularly unsavory, a plot that at times seemed to go off the rails, and some scenes that were too graphic for me. The one upside though was the intensity and style of the writing. It grabbed me from the beginning and compelled me to keep turning the pag...
Just read the other reviews/comments on this and don't have much original to add.Very dark (especially for me), compelling story. A little bit implausible plotwise but everything moves so fast that you don't have time to notice until it's over. At least you don't if you read it like I did, basically...
Dark, so dark and brutal. Grey and muddy. Violence, corruption and desperation, all rolled up into a story line that grips you and doesn't let go of you until the end. It can not end differently and it's bleak and horrible. I'll definitely read the second novel but not for a few months. The images P...