Young, David – The Bell Bookshop

Death in Blitz City

Emma — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The brand new 2022 historical crime thriller from the award-winning author of STASI CHILD.*** ‘A tense, smartly plotted new police procedural’ – DAILY MAIL ***1942. HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE – It is the most heavily bombed city outside of London, but for the sake of national morale the Hull Blitz is kept top secret.Newly posted Detective Chief Inspector Ambrose Swift cannot believe the devastation he finds. But for Swift and his deputies – Sergeant Jim ‘Little’ Weighton and Women’s Police Auxiliary Kathleen Carver – it’s murder, not the war, that looms large.When a series of sadistic killings is blamed on locally-stationed American GIs, Swift soon discovers not all is what it seems. The stench of racism and corruption goes to the very top.But finding the real killer will prove just as dangerous as the falling bombs. Because powerful forces cannot let the war effort be undermined – not even by the truth . . .___________________________________Praise for David Young:’Excellent’ – The Times’Thrilling’ – William Ryan’Masterful’ – Daily Express’Fast-paced’ – The Sun’Superb. Reminded me of Robert Harris at his best’ – Mason Cross’Up there with Martin Cruz Smith and the other greats of the field’ – Abir Mukherjee

The Stasi game

Emma — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Stasi and MI6 clash in this gripping Cold War crime thriller, from the award-winning author of Stasi Child.______________________Dresden, East Germany, 1980 – A man’s body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When People’s Police homicide captain Karin MÃ¼ller arrives at the scene, she discovers that all of the body’s identifiable features have been removed – including its fingertips.The deeper MÃ¼ller digs, the more the Stasi begin to hamper her investigations. She soon realises that this crime is just one part of a clandestine battle between two secret services – the Stasi of East Germany and Britain’s MI6 – to control the truth behind one of the deadliest events of World War II.The Stasi Game brilliantly fictionalises the true story of how Britain’s wartime leaders justifed the fire-bombing of German city of Dresden, which many have since condemned as a war crime.

Stasi 77

Emma — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime.Karin MÃ¼ller of the German Democratic Republic’s People’s Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered – bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was he targeted? Could his murderer simply be someone with a grudge against the factory’s nationalisation, as MÃ¼ller’s Stasi colleagues insist? Why too is her deputy Werner Tilsner behaving so strangely? As more victims surface, it becomes clear that there is a cold-blooded killer out there taking their revenge. Soon MÃ¼ller begins to realise that in order to solve these terrible crimes, she will need to delve into the region’s dark past. But are the Stasi really working with her on this case? Or against her? For those who really run this Republic have secrets they would rather remain uncovered. And they will stop at nothing to keep them that way . . . A gripping and evocative crime thriller, moving between the devastating closing weeks of the Second World War and the Stasi-controlled 1970s, STASI 77 is David Young’s most compelling and powerful novel yet.