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Bad Penny Blues

Cathi Unsworth

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  • ISBN 9781846686788
  • 1 December 2009
  • Paperback Original

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Police Constable Pete Bradley has done one year in the force and dreams of moving up the ladder. He's assigned as an aid to CID and working a routine nightshift with his partner when they stumble across a young woman's body. She was working as a prostitute when she was strangled, her body dumped by a riverbank. His search for her killer brings him deep into Soho's underbelly.

Meanwhile Stella, a young fashion designer with a promising career ahead of her, is woken by terrifying nightmares that echo the last hours of the dead women.

Sixties London explodes in all its ferocious colour, with fascists and Teds, migrants and hippies living in close proximity. Bad Penny Blues is a tender paean to the city, a novel with a twisted mystery at its heart.

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‘Bad Penny Blues is the English Black Dahlia and will establish Cathi Unsworth as the First Lady of Noir Fiction’ David Peace

‘A haunting and utterly absorbing London noir that takes us to all the bright lights and dark places of the big city’ Jake Arnott

‘Another tour de force... Cathi Unsworth's ability to create the feel of the period is such that background knowledge is immaterial... Authentically atmospheric and very evocative, the book’s song-title chapter headings supply an inbuilt soundtrack’ Laura Wilson, Guardian

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