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Serpent's Tail
September 2010
On Sale: September 1, 2010
448 pages
ISBN: 1846686784
EAN: 9781846686788
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Mystery Police Procedural
Police Constable Pete Bradley has done one year in the force
and dreams of moving up the ladder. He's assigned as an aid
to CID and working a routine nightshift with his partner
when they stumble across a young woman's body. She was
working as a prostitute when she was strangled, her body
dumped by a riverbank. His search for her killer brings him
deep into Soho's underbelly. Meanwhile Stella, a young fashion designer with a promising
career ahead of her, is woken by terrifying nightmares that
echo the last hours of the dead women. Sixties London explodes in all its ferocious colour, with
fascists and Teds, migrants and hippies living in close
proximity. Bad Penny Blues is a tender paean to the city, a
novel with a twisted mystery at its heart. Set against the background of 1960's London Bad penny Blues
explores the murky world of the unsolved ‘Jack the Stripper’
murders of the 1960s in which the bodies of eight working
girls were found in or along the Thames. The killings sparked the biggest manhunt in Metropolitan
Police history, but the killer was never found. In Bad Penny
Blues Cathi aims not to solve the mystery, but rather, as
she puts it, to “create a parallel universe in which an
explanation can be offered that ties together a series of
intriguing coincidences uncovered during the course of my
research.”
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