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'Excellent, always practical detective work... Staincliffe's novel is unmistakably her best, with writing that gives Britcrime its heart, mind and soul. Accept no substitute; this is the real thing.' Phillip Oakes, Literary Review 'It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better, and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that.' Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News
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Christmas is put on hold for Manchester private eye, Sal Kilkenny, after she reluctantly decides to investigate the death of a mentally unstable mother, Miriam Johnstone. The coroner's verdict is suicide: yet a grieving family and Sal's own suspicions suggest otherwise. Why would a woman so petrified of heights choose to jump from the top of a multi-storey carpark? Sal also has a personal dilemma. When should she introduce her daughter Maddie to new boyfriend, Stuart? Later, Sal accepts another case from a distressed single mother. Yet the results of Sal's enquiry into the troubled teenager's life are puzzling, and before long she is led in unexpected directions that will take her closer to danger and heartbreak than ever before...
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Format:Hardcover
In the stressful and busy countdown to Christmas, Sal Kilkenny, Manchester PI and single parent, is asked to re-open the apparantly hopeless case of a black woman who fell to her death from a central Manchester multi-story car park. Against her judgement that she can add nothing to the official investigation, Sal takes the case and a trail of dark secrets and murder opens up...At the same time, deception and lies of a different type are at the root of the subplot case, involving an apparantly truculent teenager bunking off college whose worried mother asks Sal to investigate.
This is an enjoyable and well-told tale of ordinary people's lives set against an authentic Manchester background with a likeable and resourceful heroine.
Recommended...enjoy!
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Cath Staincliffe, the brainchild of BLUE MURDER, now televised, has written a clutch of wonderful mysteries and I think this is one of her best.
Sal Kilkenny is a likeable Private eye in an authentically depicted Manchester, a single parent with small children feeling the pinch close to Christmas, so against her better nature, Sal reluctantly takes on a case investigating the death of an elderly black woman who fell from the top of a multi-story car park. Suicide say the police. Never, says the family. It makes no sense - why would she have been there when she was afraid of heights? The family is right - and a particularly nasty con artist is revealed along the way.
Later a frantically worried mother wants Sal to investigate the reason why her son has turned into a truculent and monosyllabic teenager who won't stay at home - and the answer Sal finds opens up a veritable can of worms.
Staincliffe's triumph is in the ordinariness of people's lives in suburban middle-class Britain. Wonderful stuff. Highly recommended.
Sal Kilkenny is a likeable Private eye in an authentically depicted Manchester, a single parent with small children feeling the pinch close to Christmas, so against her better nature, Sal reluctantly takes on a case investigating the death of an elderly black woman who fell from the top of a multi-story car park. Suicide say the police. Never, says the family. It makes no sense - why would she have been there when she was afraid of heights? The family is right - and a particularly nasty con artist is revealed along the way.
Later a frantically worried mother wants Sal to investigate the reason why her son has turned into a truculent and monosyllabic teenager who won't stay at home - and the answer Sal finds opens up a veritable can of worms.
Staincliffe's triumph is in the ordinariness of people's lives in suburban middle-class Britain. Wonderful stuff. Highly recommended.
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