A head teacher is bludgeoned to death and a troublesome black teenager is arrested: as far as DCI Michael Thackery is concerned, case closed. But when his girlfriend, Laura, begins digging into the case for a newspaper article, some disturbing facts come to light.
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"'A Patricia Hall novel combines the best elements of mystery detection and thriller in one novel' Deadly Pleasures"
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Patricia Hall is the pen-name of journalist Maureen O'Connor. She was born and brought up in West Yorkshire, which is where she has chosen to set her acclaimed series of novels featuring reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray. She is married, with two grown-up sons, and now lives in Oxford.
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Patricia Hall remembers telling stories to her little sisters when she was six years old, and by the time she was in her early teens she was sure that she was going to be a writer one day. She gained a a degree in English before becoming a journalist and working for The Guardian and the BBC in London, amongst others.
On 1991 her first crime novel, The Poison Pool, was published in London and New York and this was followed by a book a year. Most feature her feisty heroine, reporter Laura Ackroyd and her on-off lover DCI Michael Thackeray. They are set in the decaying industrial towns of West Yorkshire and the nearby countryside of the Yorkshire Dales. In 2011 she launched a new series with Dead Beat, casting a sceptical eye on "Swinging London" in the 1960s. The sequel, Death Trap, will be published in 2012.
Patricia is married and now lives in Oxford. She has two grown up sons and a grand-daughter.
Visit Patricia's web-site at www.patriciahall.co.uk
On 1991 her first crime novel, The Poison Pool, was published in London and New York and this was followed by a book a year. Most feature her feisty heroine, reporter Laura Ackroyd and her on-off lover DCI Michael Thackeray. They are set in the decaying industrial towns of West Yorkshire and the nearby countryside of the Yorkshire Dales. In 2011 she launched a new series with Dead Beat, casting a sceptical eye on "Swinging London" in the 1960s. The sequel, Death Trap, will be published in 2012.
Patricia is married and now lives in Oxford. She has two grown up sons and a grand-daughter.
Visit Patricia's web-site at www.patriciahall.co.uk
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False Witness, Patricia Hall, Mary Morris, Peter Graves, Michael Thackeray, Julia Graves, Stevie Fletcher, Dwayne Elton, Ted Grant, Stephen Fletcher, Hussain Achmed, Woodlands School, Gareth Davies, Kevin Mower, Mark Oliver, Jeremy Waite, Joyce Ackroyd, Charles Hutton, Jenny Sweetman, Ella Ferenc, Len Hutton, Superintendent Longley, Martin Bates, Mohammed Sharif, Fergal Mackenzie New!
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False Witness, Patricia Hall, Mary Morris, Peter Graves, Michael Thackeray, Julia Graves, Stevie Fletcher, Dwayne Elton, Ted Grant, Stephen Fletcher, Hussain Achmed, Woodlands School, Gareth Davies, Kevin Mower, Mark Oliver, Jeremy Waite, Joyce Ackroyd, Charles Hutton, Jenny Sweetman, Ella Ferenc, Len Hutton, Superintendent Longley, Martin Bates, Mohammed Sharif, Fergal Mackenzie New!
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- The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Myster: Plus complete coverage of the year in mystery and crime fiction (Year's Finest Crime & Mystery Stories) by Ed Gorman on page 68
- The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Sandra Baringer in Back Matter
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