Red Riding Quartet by David Peace (Books 1 – 4)
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Overview: David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the ’70’s and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2003. He lives in Japan.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1974 From the very first page of David Peace’s first novel, 1974, it soon becomes clear that something is rotten in the state of Yorkshire: a young girl is missing.
The Yorkshire Post’s young but disillusioned crime correspondent, Edward Dunford, is assigned to the story, while juggling the recent death of his father and the return to his native Yorkshire after a brief, unsuccessful stint in Fleet Street. For the jaded Dunford, it’s just another story; the only intrigue is whether or not the girl will be found dead or alive before Christmas. That is, until the girl is discovered brutally murdered, face down in a ditch with a pair of swan’s wings sewn into her back.
As Dunford follows the case, he begins to make a series of terrifying connections with a string of child murders, plunging him into a gut-wrenching nightmare of corruption, violence, sadism, blackmail and sexual obsession–from the upper echelons of local government to the tacky heart of Yorkshire darkness.
1977 Leeds. Sunday 29 May 1977. It’s happening again… Three years after the Strafford Shootings and little has changed in the dark world of west Yorkshire. Prostitutes are being murdered with grim regularity. Bob Fraser is a half-way decent copper in a police force as corrupt as it is brutal. Jack Whitehead is a burned-out hack in perpetual self-torment after the Exorcist killings. Both men are struggling to control their desperate infatuations with Chapeltown whores. When the two sevens clash… As the burning summer gives way to the bonfires of Jubilee Night, Fraser begins to suspect that the Yorkshire Ripper isn’t the only killer in town. Whitehead is the only other man who even cares.
1980 Winter 1980. The Yorkshire Ripper has just claimed his thirteenth victim. Ripper thirteen, police nil. As public anger against the police mounts, Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunter is sent to take over the investigation. The Strafford Shootings remain unsolved, and the murders of the Jubilee summer of 1977 are still attributed to the Ripper. But Hunter soon realises that all is not as it seems – and that the police are more heavily implicated in the killings than anyone could have imagined. Jack Whitehead, alone and mad in a mental institution after trying to exorcise the demons from his head with hammer and nail, appears to hold the key. What is the connection between the Ripper and this fresh spate of violence? And what will happen when these men’s separate hells collide?
1983 Three men, three months of hell. May 1983. John Pigott, an overweight lawyer as noble in his intentions as he is a slave to his desires, finds that the man convicted for Clare Kemplay’s murder might just be innocent – and that all the people who could answer his questions are dead. June 1977. BJ, the rent boy from Ninetten Seventy Four, is on the run, his life in danger for what he knows, plagued by the horrors he has witnessed. Soon he must confront the possibility that the man purporting to be his saviour is the devil himself. December 1974. Maurice Jobson, the senior policeman known as ‘The Owl’, is increasingly sucked into a morass of corruption where murder and cruelty become the only tools for survival. His actions will set the whole infernal engine in motion. In Nineteen Eighty Three, David Peace’s hugely influential Red Riding Quartet, one of the finest series in contemporary British crime writing, is brought to a close with a finale more shocking and intense than anything before.
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