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Chargement... Fair and Tender Ladiespar Chris Nickson
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1734. When a young country lad requests the Constable’s help in finding his sister who has run away to Leeds to seek her fortune, Nottingham is not optimistic. Such girls usually end up as prostitutes – or worse. The following day, the young man is found dead, his throat slit. The evening before his death, the victim had been seen in deep conversation with career criminal Tom Finer in the Bell Inn. Could there be a connection to his murder? Why has Finer returned to Leeds after a seventeen-year absence? And what really happened to the young man’s sister? Then a second body is discovered floating in the River Aire – and Nottingham finds himself plunged into a murder investigation where nothing is as it seems. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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In this novel, Nottingham is still grieving for the sudden death of his wife, and is distracted from investigations into what may or may not be a double murder by the acts of vandalism and intimidation against the charity school that his daughter, Emily, has recently opened and by the reappearance after twenty years, of Tom Finer, once one of the kingpins of Leeds' criminal underworld, who insists he is now a reformed character.
As usual, Nickson vividly captures the grinding poverty of Leeds' underclass in stark contrast to the wealth that is being built on the wool trade, and where crime-fighting is down to questioning and intuition and the odd stroke of luck, and pistols and cudgels are the means of law enforcement.
Once again, and infuriatingly, for me, Nickson kills off one of the series best characters in an act of random violence and there is a slight feeling of repetition in some of the characterisations and scenes. ( )