John Barber

Seven Days in May (Inspector Winwood Mysteries, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A local Parliamentary by-election is called when the sitting MP is forced to resign after being found in a sexually compromising situation. The political constituency of Rutherford is considered an important indication of the way the country might vote in a general election. Detective Inspector Steve Winwood has orders to remain in his office whilst his Detective Sergeant Archie Tibble and secret service Inspector Ruth Coleman are sent undercover. This decision follows a cryptic message in the Obituary section of the local paper which seems to suggest that an attempt may be made on the life of the Prime Minister. He is expected to be canvassing in town. Winwood is immediately detached to investigate the murder of Les Wade, a reclusive retired rock star who lived just outside the town. There are few clues to help about Les Wade's past and then he receives some help from Brian Bennett, the Editor of the Rutherford Echo about a similar cold case. Doctor MacKenzie's forensic discovery indicates that the gun and bullet that killed Les Wade could be connected to the same cold case from thirty years previous. Tibble and Coleman are sent on various wild goose chases before the election takes place. Winwood gets an important break when a previous lover of Les Wade gives him the background on Wade's life he really needs. The case moves along as Winwood makes a friend of a guest at the Fleetwood who is dying and offers some advice::'sit still and the world will move around you'. When the threat to the PM evaporates Tibble is stood down but Winwood completes his investigation into both the current and historic murders to the complete satisfaction and gratitude of the secret service. As the working relationship between Archie and Ruth becomes more personal theirs is not the only love story, of which at least two are doomed.

Warning: Sexual content from the beginning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Barber
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311858146
• Artikelnr.: 48742885

Autorenporträt

John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.

This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.

John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.

He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords

John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.