Nineteen seventy-seven

David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. It's summer in Leeds and the city is anxiously awaiting the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Detective Bob Fraser and Jack Whitehead, a reporter at the Post, however, have other things on their minds-mainly the fact that someone is murdering prostitutes. The killer is quickly dubbed the "Yorkshire Ripper" and each man, on their own, works tirelessly to catch him. But their investigations turn grisly as they each engage in affairs with the prostitutes they are supposedly protecting. As the summer progresses, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large.From the Trade Paperback edition.

First sentence: Burning unmarked rubber through another hot dawn to another ancient park with her secret dead, from Potter's field to Soldier's Field, parks giving up their ghosts, it's happening all over again.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Editions

9

Pages

341

ISBN

9780307455093

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