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'A small masterpiece' The Spectator My Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely. With a novelist's eye, Robert Edric vividly depicts a now-vanished era: of working-men's clubs; of tight-knit communities in factory towns; and of a time when a woman's place was in the home. And he brings to colourful life his family, both close and extended - though over all of it hovers the vanity and barely-suppressed anger of his own father. My Own Worst Enemy is a brilliantly specific portrait both of particular time and place - the Sheffield of half a century ago - and a universal story of childhood and family, and the ways they can go right or wrong.

In this final part of the Song Cycle Quartet, published here for the first time, Hull private detective Leo Rivers is approached by a wealthy property developer. The man's only daughter is being blackmailed by a local drug dealer, to whom she owes money and who possesses compromising photographs of her, and Rivers is employed to deliver the money demanded and to keep the girl away from all that threatens to destroy both her and her father's ambitions in the city. It is soon clear to Rivers, however, that there is considerably more to this transaction than meets the eye, and that he is being used by both men to their own illegal and profitable ends. Following a vicious assault on Rivers and the death of two innocent men, the private detective is drawn into a world of drug-financed gang warfare and police corruption, each side playing him off against the other, until in a final unstoppable explosion of violence and killing, he is lucky to escape with his own life.

Ein Kurort in der Schweiz, Spätherbst 1919. Elizabeth Mortlake und ihre Schwägerin reisen aus Oxford an, um sich von ihrem Verlust zu erholen: Michael, Marys Ehemann und Elizabeths Bruder, ist im Krieg gefallen. Der Ort bietet kaum Gesellschaft, nur ein deutscher Waffenhändler und seine langweilige Tochter zeigen Interesse an den beiden Frauen. Während Mary in ihrer Trauer versinkt, wird Elizabeth von dem geheimnisvollen Captain Jameson angezogen, der im Hotel auftaucht und als unwillkommener Gast gilt. Jeder im Ort scheint etwas über den abweisenden Engländer zu wissen, der angeblich mit seltenen Büchern handelt. Elizabeths Neugier führt sie zu einem nahegelegenen Kloster und einem Militärkrankenhaus. Dort trifft sie auf eine alte Nonne, die die Abgründe des Lebens kennt, eine eifersüchtige Novizin, einen Offizier mit einem drohenden Todesurteil und einen Arzt, der schwer verwundeten Soldaten neue Gesichter geben kann. Elizabeth beginnt, ihre eigenen moralischen Urteile zu hinterfragen. Die Stadt am See wird zum bizarren Zwischenreich: Das alte Leben ist vorbei, und die Zukunft bleibt ungewiss. In dieser gefühlstauben Welt, umgeben von Verkrüppelten und Versehrten, findet Elizabeth eine unerwartete Freiheit und möglicherweise den Mut für einen Neuanfang.

Ein fesselnder Psychothriller, in dem in Hull zwei Prostituierte ermordet werden. Die Polizei verdächtigt Paul Hendry, doch seine Mutter glaubt an seine Unschuld und engagiert Privatdetektiv Leo Rivers. Dieser entdeckt Verbindungen zu einem Vorfall vor dreißig Jahren, der einen Rachefeldzug auslöst.

Krimi um einen Privatdetektiv, der die Wahrheit über den Tod einer spurlos Verschwundenen herausfindet.

It is 1847, northern England, and Charles Weightman has been given the unenviable task of overseeing the flooding of the Forge Valley and evicting its lingering inhabitants. Weightman is heartily resented by these locals, and he himself is increasingly unconvinced both of the wisdom of his appointment and of the integrity and motives of the company men who posted him there. He finds some solace, however, in his enigmatic neighbour, Mary Latimer. Caring for her mad sister, Mary is also an outsider, and a companionship develops between the two of them which offers them both some comfort and support in their mutual isolation. As winter closes steadily in and as the waters begin to rise in the Forge Valley, it becomes increasingly evident that the man-made deluge cannot be avoided; not by the locals desperate to save their homes, nor by the reluctant agent of their destruction, Weightman himself.In a masterful new novel, Edric captures powerful human emotions with grace and precision. The hauntingly resonant backdrop to this story of David and Goliath marks Edric’s dramatic return to historical literary fiction.

A new series of murders take place after a convicted child murderer offers to provide evidence against others and about police corruption in exchange for freedom.