Looking For Trouble
Author: Cath Staincliffe
ISBN: 9781780339979
Publisher: Little Brown
Year first published: 02 May 2013
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
She's a single parent. A private eye. And liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son.Sal's search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a wasteland of deprivation and petty theft, of well-heeled organised crime and, ultimately, murder. Would she have taken the job on if she had known what she was getting herself into?Actually, yes. Sal is on fire with a desire to see justice done and to avenge the death of a young lad whose only crime was knowing too much...This is the first Sal Kilkenny mystery, serialised on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.Sal Kilkenny SeriesLooking For Trouble (Book 1)Go Not Gently (Book 2)Dead Wrong (Book 3)Stone Cold Red Hot (Book 4)Towers of Silence (Book 5)Bitter Blue (Book 6)Missing (Book 7)Crying Out Loud (Book 8)Praise for Cath Staincliffe:'A book about courage and compromise, about how sometimes it's kinder and braver to lie.Stunning.'Anne Cleeves'Modest, compassionate... a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detail'Literary Review'Complex and satisfying' The Sunday Times'about as good as the British private eye novel gets' Time Out'It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better, and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that'Val McDermid'an engrossing read'Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: 9781780339979
Publisher: Little Brown
Year first published: 02 May 2013
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
She's a single parent. A private eye. And liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son.Sal's search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a wasteland of deprivation and petty theft, of well-heeled organised crime and, ultimately, murder. Would she have taken the job on if she had known what she was getting herself into?Actually, yes. Sal is on fire with a desire to see justice done and to avenge the death of a young lad whose only crime was knowing too much...This is the first Sal Kilkenny mystery, serialised on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.Sal Kilkenny SeriesLooking For Trouble (Book 1)Go Not Gently (Book 2)Dead Wrong (Book 3)Stone Cold Red Hot (Book 4)Towers of Silence (Book 5)Bitter Blue (Book 6)Missing (Book 7)Crying Out Loud (Book 8)Praise for Cath Staincliffe:'A book about courage and compromise, about how sometimes it's kinder and braver to lie.Stunning.'Anne Cleeves'Modest, compassionate... a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detail'Literary Review'Complex and satisfying' The Sunday Times'about as good as the British private eye novel gets' Time Out'It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better, and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that'Val McDermid'an engrossing read'Sunday Telegraph
