Bad Blood
by Brian McGilloway
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Pub Date 18 May 2017 | Archive Date 12 May 2017
Little, Brown Book Group UK | Corsair
Description
'Brian McGilloway blends timeless values with ripped-from-the-headlines issues to produce some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child
A young man is found in a riverside park, his head bashed in with a rock. The only clue to his identity is an admission stamp for the local gay club.
DS Lucy Black is called in to investigate. As Lucy delves into the community, tensions begin to rise as the man's death draws the attention of the local gay rights group to a hate-speech Pastor who, days earlier, had advocated the stoning of gay people and who refuses to retract his statement.
Things become more complicated with the emergence of a far right group targeting immigrants in a local working-class estate. As their attacks escalate, Lucy and her boss, Tom Fleming, must also deal with the building power struggle between an old paramilitary commander and his deputy that threatens to further enflame an already volatile situation.
Hatred and complicity abound in the days leading up to the Brexit vote in McGilloway's new Lucy Black thriller. Compelling and current, Bad Blood is an expertly crafted and acutely observed page-turner.
'Set just before the Brexit vote, this book explores important questions of community and identity. McGilloway shies away from easy answers; instead he gives us a tense and beautifully-written crime novel that takes the reader into lives that aren't seen often enough' Ann Cleeves
A Note From the Publisher
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781472151315 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 336 |
Featured Reviews
Brid C, Reviewer
A fantastic book. Loads of appropriate current affair matters dealt with. Thank you Netgalley.
Martha B, Reviewer
Another excellent read from Brian McGilloway. Each book seems to improve from the previous one. This is a well written and current book with immigration, tensions in the community, gay hatred and Brexit as the theme. It is a compelling read and accurately observed. Throw in a paramillitary commander and a great ending and you have the makings of a very good book. Many thanks to Net Galley for my copy.I reviewed on Goodreads.
Elaine T, Reviewer
I would like to thank Netgalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK for an advance copy of Bad Blood, the 4th Derry based police procedural to feature DS Lucy Black.
Lucy and her boss DI Tom Fleming are extremely busy. The upcoming Brexit referendum has brought a spate of crime to the Greenway estate from new gang activity to racism and finally the murder of a gay teenager. As members of the Public Protection Unit they assist all the ongoing investigations but only have the racist attacks on the Lupei as their own.
I enjoyed Bad Blood. It is a good police procedural with plenty of plot twists and seems to be a fair representation of the uneasiness that exists in the present day, exacerbated by problems particular to Northern Ireland and its history. It is an interesting read as Lucy and Tom navigate these troubled waters and manage to pull it all together. Some of it I guessed, much of it I didn't.
The novel is well paced. It covers a lot of ground so there is always something going on but it is easy to follow and I never felt lost in the welter of situations, rather, I enjoyed all the possibilities.
Bad Blood is a good read which I have no hesitation in recommending.
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