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Launch Party in Saltaire on 20th June PRESSBradford Telegraph & Argus - Interview & review 6 JulyKeighley News - Interview X 2 & reviewYorkshire Post - Interview & reviewWriters Forum - Author articleCrime Time - review INTERNETShots.co.uk - Review EVENTSReid's Bookshop, Keighley - Signing 22nd JuneLe Repertoire Coffee shop - signing 6th JulyHeffer's Cambridge - Bodies in the Bookshop 18th JulyDead on Deansgate - OctoberSandwell Library - Rea
Racial tensions are running high in the Yorkshire town where John Handford works as a detective inspector. He's still recovering from the opprobrium heaped on him last year when he arrested Mohammed Aziz for the murder of his sister Jamilla, who was going out with a white boy. Aziz was convicted, but memories of the subsequent riots in the town are still vivid. Now another Asian woman has been killed - Rukhsana Mahmood, a respected Sikh health visitor. Handford's unwilling to take on the case, but he has no choice - and to make things worse he's paired with Sergeant Khalid Ali, an ambitious man who faces racism from the police force and accusations of selling out from the Pakistani community. Matters aren't helped by the discovery that not only has Rukhsana married a Muslim - for which she has been disowned by her family - but she may also have been having an affair with someone else?. This is an enjoyable detective novel whose strength lies in its depiction of an impoverished, unhappy community divided rigidly along racial lines. The problems in society are mirrored in the police force, and the only tentative glimmers of hope come from personal relationships, as Handford and Ali begin to respect each other and Rukhsana's husband is comforted by abused teenage mother Karen. Horton's plotting is adroit and her characterization vivid despite a tendency to slip into cliche - and the fact that the female characters are all much nicer and less complex than the male. But taken as a whole this is an impressive debut, and Horton's grim portrayal of insecurity and prejudice will remain long in the mind. (Kirkus UK)
Racial tensions are running high in the Yorkshire town where John Handford works as a detective inspector. He's still recovering from the opprobrium heaped on him last year when he arrested Mohammed Aziz for the murder of his sister Jamilla, who was going out with a white boy. Aziz was convicted, but memories of the subsequent riots in the town are still vivid. Now another Asian woman has been killed - Rukhsana Mahmood, a respected Sikh health visitor. Handford's unwilling to take on the case, but he has no choice - and to make things worse he's paired with Sergeant Khalid Ali, an ambitious man who faces racism from the police force and accusations of selling out from the Pakistani community. Matters aren't helped by the discovery that not only has Rukhsana married a Muslim - for which she has been disowned by her family - but she may also have been having an affair with someone else?. This is an enjoyable detective novel whose strength lies in its depiction of an impoverished, unhappy community divided rigidly along racial lines. The problems in society are mirrored in the police force, and the only tentative glimmers of hope come from personal relationships, as Handford and Ali begin to respect each other and Rukhsana's husband is comforted by abused teenage mother Karen. Horton's plotting is adroit and her characterization vivid despite a tendency to slip into cliche - and the fact that the female characters are all much nicer and less complex than the male. But taken as a whole this is an impressive debut, and Horton's grim portrayal of insecurity and prejudice will remain long in the mind. (Kirkus UK)
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'Lesley Horton writes with sensitivity... everyone is a suspect, but Horton manages to sketch each character with a flourish that breathes life into all.'
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