Book description
As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire
in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping
bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the
case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the
Second World War. He could not have less in common with - or less
regard for - young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoking
marijuana and listening to the pulsing sounds of rock and roll. But he
has a murder to solve, and it looks as if the victim was somehow
associated with the up-and-coming psychedelic pastoral band the Mad Hatters.
In the present, Inspector Alan Banks is investigating the murder of a
freelance music journalist who was working on a feature about the Mad
Hatters for MOJO magazine. This is not the first time that the Mad
Hatters, now aging rock superstars, have been brushed by tragedy.
Banks finds he has to delve into the past to find out exactly what
hornets' nest the journalist inadvertently stirred up.
