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Judy M. Ford

    This author crafts mystery novels described as "mystery for thinking people." Her writing delves into complex themes such as disability, inter-racial marriage, and bereavement, prompting readers not only to solve the "whodunit?" but also to contemplate real-life issues. Her disabled detective character, DCI Jonah Porter, is informed by the author's insights into the world of disability. Reading her work encourages deeper reflection and challenges the reader's assumptions.

    Crowd of Witnesses: Death at the Demo
    Victim Statements: Cold and Frosty Mourning
    • 2021

      Six months on from the murders of Kenny Hughes and Harry Whittle, their families are still waiting to hear when the killers will be brought to trial. The end of the COVID-19 Lockdown and the re-opening of Crown Courts offers hope, but summer turns to Autumn and Christmas approaches with no end to their ordeal in sight. Everyone is searching for the elusive post-COVID "new normal", but how can the lives of Gavin and Chrissie Hughes or Yvonne and Trevor Whittle return to any kind of normality when their families have been ripped apart and those responsible are still walking free? This final part of the Kenny Hughes Memorial Trilogy traces their long weary path to justice, but does this bring closure? That's something else altogether! This is the Large Print Edition

      Victim Statements: Cold and Frosty Mourning
    • 2020

      Crowd of Witnesses: Death at the Demo

      • 290 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Veteran detective, DCI Jonah Porter, is frustrated at being sent home from work to sit out the COVID-19 lockdown at home. To occupy his mind – and give her some peace from his complaints – his friend, Bernie, suggests that he writes his memoirs. So Jonah delves deep into the past to re-visit his very first murder investigation: a case from 1982, when Margaret Thatcher was still fighting the unions and the Greenham Common women were campaigning to stop cruise missiles being based on UK soil.Scuffles break out as anti-nuclear demonstrators converge on the centre of Oxford. As the crowd starts to disperse, one of their number drops to the ground unconscious. All attempts to revive him fail. Medical examination suggests that he died of a drug overdose, but was it self-administered or was he murdered in the crush?

      Crowd of Witnesses: Death at the Demo