John Barber

The Book of Life (Inspector Winwood Mysteries, #6) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This follows on from Murder at the Fleetwood. Callum Greenwood and Yvonne Cornwall are on remand for the murders of Martin Prothero and Stella Livngstone. The case was solved to everyhone's satisfaction, even to the newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood. Then Ben Davies, a director of Rutherford Corinthian Football Club is found mudered in the supporters bar whilst the other ten directors convene a meeting in the boardroom. Steve's innvestigations involve the strange rules by which the Football Club was founded and the workings of the Trust Fund which finances it. Ben Davies is at the heart of this as the loans he made to the clu for gound improvments are now due for repayment and the Club has no way of repaying them giving rise to plenty of motives inside the Board. Ben Davies own life becomes the focus of invetigations. It takes some old fashioned detective work to unscramble the lives and rules of the Football Club that led to murder and the release of Callum Greenwood and Yvonne Cornwell. The question remains that if not them then who; and who murdered Ben Davies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Barber
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310356490
• Artikelnr.: 70720760

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.