Book description
Police Constable Pete Bradley has one year in the force and dreams of
moving up the ladder. He's assigned as an aid to CID and working a
routine nightshift with his partner when they stumble across a young
woman's body. She was working as a prostitute when she was strangled,
her body dumped by a riverbank. His search for her killer brings him
deep into Soho's underbelly. Meanwhile Stella, a young fashion designer
with a promising career ahead of her, is woken by terrifying nightmares
that echo the last hours of the dead women. Sixties London explodes in
all its ferocious colour, with fascists and Teds, migrants and hippies
living in close proximity. Bad Penny Blues is a tender paean to the
city, a novel with a twisted mystery at its heart. Police Constable
Pete Bradley has one year in the force and dreams of moving up the
ladder. He's assigned as an aid to CID and working a routine nightshift
with his partner when they stumble across a young woman's body. She was
working as a prostitute when she was strangled, her body dumped by a
riverbank. His search for her killer brings him deep into Soho's
underbelly. Meanwhile Stella, a young fashion designer with a promising
career ahead of her, is woken by terrifying nightmares that echo the
last hours of the dead women. Sixties London explodes in all its
ferocious colour, with fascists and Teds, migrants and hippies living in
close proximity. Bad Penny Blues is a tender paean to the city, a novel
with a twisted mystery at its heart.
