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The Riot

By: Laura Wilson
Narrated by: Seán Barrett
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August 1958. DI Stratton has just been posted to Notting Hill. Stratton's new manor is rife with racial tension. The end of the war saw a flood of Caribbean migrants. Now, a decade later, working-class Teddy Boys are showing mounting hostility towards their black neighbours.

Notorious landlord Danny Perlmann, a Polish refugee, is taking full advantage and is making a fortune off the high rents he charges. Caught in the middle of this war over rents and turf is Irene, a young runaway on the verge of going on the game. When Perlmann's rent collector is murdered, Stratton is called to investigate.

Notting Hill is a cauldron, and Stratton is right at the heart of it.

©2013 Laura Wilson (P)2013 Isis Publishing Ltd Historical Mystery War Fiction Suspense
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I usually avoid books by modern female writers, because so many seem unable to tell a good story. They get wrapped up in the detective's tortuous personal life and can't seem to separate it from his/her professional life or show realistic interactions with people not emotionally connected to the main character.

None of those criticisms apply here. Laura Wilson is a fine novelist. All her characters live real lives.
Sean Barrett is (as you probably know) one of the great reader-performers working today.
The combination is unbeatable.

Keep this one. I'd bet you'll want to hear it more than once.

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