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Suspended Retribution by Rob Ashman

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Acting Detective Chief Inspector Rosalind Kray is called to investigate a hit and run in one of Blackpool’s side streets. There’s a certain poetic justice to the scene. The victim, Jimmy Caldwell, had himself just received a two-year suspended sentence for vehicular manslaughter. While texting…
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Unforgiving

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Written by Nick Oldham — Detective Superintendent Henry Christie returns in another episode of his career fighting outlaws on England’s wild North-West frontier in Lancashire, including Blackpool, Preston and the surrounding areas. Unforgiving is a police procedural, but if that bestows any sense of dryness,…
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It's crim up north for Wordpool Festival

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Blackpool’s Wordpool Festival of words is in its ninth year – and 2015 sees the resort welcoming its most eclectic mix of authors yet, with a healthy splash of crime fiction thrown in. The fun begins on Wednesday, with a launch party that promises plenty…
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Low Profile by Nick Oldham

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Anyone who has read Vendetta, Nick Oldham’s novelisation of the film starring Danny Dyer, will probably still cringe at the thought of some of the more imaginative torture scenes… filling a living victim with cement is just one example indelibly etched upon my brain. So…
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Bad Tidings

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Written by Nick Oldham — It is a cold Lancashire New Year’s Day. Dark and early. Detective Superintendent Henry Christie of Lancashire CID is deeply asleep in his lady-friend’s bed. She is a pub landlady, and is exhausted after several days of seasonal festivities. But…
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