Striking Murder by A J Wright
1893. Wigan is in the grip of a devastating national miners' strike and a harsh winter. Arthur Morris, a wealthy colliery owner whose intransigence on miners' pay is the main cause of the strike, is found brutally murdered in Scholes, a rough working-class district where he is universally hated and blamed for the grinding hardship the strike is causing. Detective Sergeant Brennan is tasked with finding the murderer and when a mysterious stranger is found bludgeoned to death, Brennan starts to unravel a twisted thread of interwoven clues that will lead to the murderer.
Praise for AJ. Wright: 'Sergeant Slevin is a great creation ... There's a real pace to the story and toward the end I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.' The Bookbag
A. J. Wright has been shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award and won the Dundee International Fiction Prize for Act of Murder. Striking Murder has been longlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger. He lives in Croston in Lancashire.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780749019341 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749019344 |
| Title | Striking Murder |
| Author | A J Wright |
| Series | Lancashire Detective |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Allison & Busby |
| Year published | 2016-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for CWA Historical Dagger 2016 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |