Goodmans of Glassford Street
Publisher: Black and White Publishing Limited; Black & White
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781845021641
Subjects: Politicians, fiction; Serial murders, fiction; Edinburgh (scotland), fiction; Fiction, family life, general
Description: Goodmans of Glassford Street is the story of a successful but old-fashioned family department store and the lives and conflicts of the people who work in it, including the strong-willed matriarch Abigail Goodman. Douglas Benson, Abigail's son-in-law, is determined to gain control of the store and completely modernise it. He becomes more and more ruthless and devious in his methods to oust Abigail but Abigail is determined to hold on to the business and keep it as it is. She and her late husband, Tom, had taken over Goodmans of Glassford Street from Tom's father and built the business up together. All her memories of her much-loved husband are tied up with the store. As the struggle for control of the store escalates, Abigail's son John presents the family with another crisis. A serial killer is stalking the closes and wynds of Edingburgh and it looks like John may be a suspect. It's a bitter blow to Abigail and the Goodman family at an already uncertain time.