Title: Nineteen seventy-four
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1999
Description: The first installment of David Peace's electrifying Red Riding Quartet vividly brings to life a gritty, dangerous working class city tormented by a series of brutal murders. Nineteen Seventy-Four follows Eddie Dunford, the newly minted crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first story is about Clare Kemplay, a young girl recently found brutally murdered. While the police department and other crime reporters at the newspaper believe it's an isolated incident, Eddie finds a pattern between Clare's disappearance and those of other girls from a few years earlier. Despite his better judgment, and against the advice of others, he starts to dig deep. What he finds is a nightmare of corruption, violence, blackmail, and obsession that ultimately leads to a shocking, explosive conclusion.
Subjects: Fiction, Journalists, Murder, Girls, Crimes against, Investigation, Missing persons, Mystery, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Missing persons, fiction, Journalists, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Places: Yorkshire (England), England