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2000s: Blood in Bradford on every level…
Untainted Blood
What you need to know before your trail
Tensions mount after a Tory MP in Bradford Central is discredited leaving the door open for the extreme right-wing candidate, Graeme Weston, to stand in the resultant by-election. This is a city already on the edge and it’s about to go over it
Graeme Weston is not what he appears to be. He has secrets jeopardising his political career,and so he must tread very carefully.
Meanwhile, a serial killer targets Asian men who lead alternatives lifestyles and delivers his own form of torture.
DI Gus McGuire’s team are closing in, but the deranged killer is not finished and Gus himself finds himself in the firing line
Travel Guide
Bradford
A city on the edge in this novel. Bradford Central has caused the politicl turmoil and the MP Clive Clementon has resigned following the infamous Matchmaker case which involved many high profile celebraties being investigated for their role in historic chid abuse cases
Bradford’s multicultural edge
This novel reveals many unsettling and uncomfortable notions aout a city whose racism is filtering through into its politics and its reactions to crime against asian men.
The city was in a mess, the Matchmake fiasco last year had delivered a resounding blow to Bradford’s law and order, People felt uneasy. who they trust, if their public figures were corrupt? That combined with the recent gang murders, and the subsequent spotlight on the immigrants and the current spate of killings had bled the city dry and brougn drugs and prostitition to their midst. No wonder Bradford had voted for Brexit. In Bradford, the natives were restless
Hebden Bridge
There’s a nice journey up to Hebden Bridge as part of the investigation:
..”With its victorian sandstone houses apparently shaoed on a whim to fit the landscape, No directed him past the pretty market square on the main road towards the canal whree they parked up in a pub car park
Streetview Maps
B) Bradford - The City Hall
E) Bradford - Scotchman Road
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
There is a lot going on in this book but don’t take that as a criticism because it’s not. Liz manages to keep all the plates spinning so well I was in awe of the multi threaded stories interweaving in and out. The themes in the book are unsettling and I think even more so as they are reminiscent of recent cases we’ll all heard in the news – historical child abuse cases, Asian men involved – this time being targeted as victims. Brexit even pops up and the general unsettling feeling the country is undergoing due to recent political turmoil.
It’s a gritty read – uncomfortable at times – but the detail and the meat on the bones if that’s not too graphic a term in this sense, is nicely done. It’s hardcore reading and it seems very very real. When the killer and the case seems to turn back and stare straight ahead at the officers in the case, well that just ramps things up even more.
Grit lit Bradford style
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Untainted Blood
Destination: Bradford Author/Guide: Liz Mistry Departure Time: 2000s
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