A house of knives
Shaw, William, 1959-2015
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London, November 1968. The decade is drawing its last breath. In Marylebone CID, suspects are beaten in the cells and the only woman has resigned. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat in his in tray and two burned bodies on his hands. One is an unidentified, unmourned vagrant; the other the wayward son of a rising politician. One case suffers the apathy of a depleted police force; the other obstructed by a PR-conscious father with the ear of the Home Office. But they can't stop him talking to Robert 'Groovy Bob' Fraser - whose glamourous Pop Art parties mask a spreading heroin addiction among London's young and beautiful - nor to a hippy squat that risks exposing it. Then the potential perpetrator of his death threats is murdered and Breen becomes a suspect.
Main title:
A house of knives / William Shaw.
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Imprint:
London : Quercus, 2015.
Collation:
474 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: 2014.
ISBN:
9781848667426 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92CRI
Language:
English
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BRN:
986826