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Yorkshire-born David Peace was inspired to write by reading James Ellroy's LA Quartet novels. Like Ellroy, Peace has taken a murder (or murders in this case) that resonated through his own childhood and woven his own fiction around the facts. For Ellroy's Black Dahlia, read the Yorkshire Ripper. Nor do the comparisons end there. This is the third of a quartet of Red Riding novels, which, while perhaps lacking the apparent glamour of 1950s America, is still peopled by corrupt police and flawed heroes - in this case, assistant chief constable Pete Hunter, brought in to speed along the investigation into the murder of 13 women in the late 1970s in northern England. 1980 was the year the Yorkshire Ripper was caught - the final, but by no means conclusive act of the novel. The chase for Peter Sutcliffe (who the murderer turned out to be) was deflected by any number of mistakes, distortions and false leads, all of which remain as loose ends so far in the series. This is a novel of harsh realism. Peace has created a malevolent, nightmarish world which straddles the Yorkshire Moors (the scene of earlier horrific killings) as the hunt for the Ripper simply uncovers more murders and murderers, corruption, cynicism, paranoia and lust. Stylistically uncompromising and necessarily brutal, Peace's is a gritty, bleak, and very English version of the noir genre, one which also makes the reader think of Stan Barstow or Alan Sillitoe, but with a very different moral outlook and not a hint of sentimentality. Peace is a powerful and talented writer, with a powerful grip on a continuing narrative. A treat for world-weary fans of hard-boiled fiction. (Kirkus UK)
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"Set in a world in which black comes in many shades, this powerful, stark and strangely poetic series is turning into a considerable achievement."-"Guardian" The third novel in David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet sees Yorkshire terrorized by the Ripper while the corrupt police continue to prosper. Weaving his own extraordinary fiction around the terrible history of the time, David Peace has once again produced a thriller that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre.
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Yorkshire-born David Peace was inspired to write by reading James Ellroy's LA Quartet novels. Like Ellroy, Peace has taken a murder (or murders in this case) that resonated through his own childhood and woven his own fiction around the facts. For Ellroy's Black Dahlia, read the Yorkshire Ripper. Nor do the comparisons end there. This is the third of a quartet of Red Riding novels, which, while perhaps lacking the apparent glamour of 1950s America, is still peopled by corrupt police and flawed heroes - in this case, assistant chief constable Pete Hunter, brought in to speed along the investigation into the murder of 13 women in the late 1970s in northern England. 1980 was the year the Yorkshire Ripper was caught - the final, but by no means conclusive act of the novel. The chase for Peter Sutcliffe (who the murderer turned out to be) was deflected by any number of mistakes, distortions and false leads, all of which remain as loose ends so far in the series. This is a novel of harsh realism. Peace has created a malevolent, nightmarish world which straddles the Yorkshire Moors (the scene of earlier horrific killings) as the hunt for the Ripper simply uncovers more murders and murderers, corruption, cynicism, paranoia and lust. Stylistically uncompromising and necessarily brutal, Peace's is a gritty, bleak, and very English version of the noir genre, one which also makes the reader think of Stan Barstow or Alan Sillitoe, but with a very different moral outlook and not a hint of sentimentality. Peace is a powerful and talented writer, with a powerful grip on a continuing narrative. A treat for world-weary fans of hard-boiled fiction. (Kirkus UK)
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"Set in a world in which black comes in many shades, this powerful, stark and strangely poetic series is turning into a considerable achievement."-"Guardian" The third novel in David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet sees Yorkshire terrorized by the Ripper while the corrupt police continue to prosper. Weaving his own extraordinary fiction around the terrible history of the time, David Peace has once again produced a thriller that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre.
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