The Doll Princess

What you need to know before your trail

Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the “Evening News” is carrying reports of two murders –  a glamorous Egyptian woman, a socialite and heiress to an oil fortune, and the second victim – a young prostitute whose body has been found dumped on a roadside near the McVitie’s factory. For Bane – loan shark and legman for one of Manchester’s established ganglords – it’s the second piece of news that hits hardest for the second victim was his childhood sweetheart.

But are the two pieces of news and the two worlds really that different from one another after all? Henry Bane wants answers.