Nineteen Seventy Four

Crime Thrillers

Author: David Peace

It’s winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Ed Dunford’s got the job he wanted. Crime correspondent for the Evening Post. He didn’t know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan’s wings stitched to her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings passion and stylistic bravado to this terr….Read More

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