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Di Stratton, Fiction, Crime & mystery
An outstanding historical crime thriller based on real-life events: the framing of Timothy Evans for murders committed by notorious serial killer John Christie.
It is winter, 1950 in a dingy part of London. John Davies confesses to strangling his wife and baby daughter, and for DI Ted Stratton of West End Central, it promises to be a straightforward case. When Davies recants, blaming respectable neighbour Norman Backhouse for the crimes, nobody, including Stratton, sees any reason to believe him. Davies is convicted and hanged, but later, after a series of gruesome discoveries, Stratton begins to suspect that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice.
Her marriage in tatters, ex-MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is determined to start a new life, but, despite a promising beginning, she soon finds herself in trouble both financially and emotionally. And with a seemingly unstoppable killer of women on the loose, she is very vulnerable indeed.
A Capital Crime is a story of guilt, longing, uncertainty, and grotesque horror.
Praise for A Capital Crime: DI Stratton 3
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A writer who achieves her grip on the reader by the accumulation of little gems of setting and characterisation - The Times
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One of the country's most acute psychological crime novelists - Independent
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The third book in Wilson's DI Stratton series is even better than the previous prize-winning instalments. A small masterpiece - Literary Review
Laura Wilson
Laura Wilson's acclaimed and award-winning crime novels have won her many fans. Her novel Stratton's War won the Ellis Peters Award, while The Lover and A Thousand Lies were both shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Laura is the Guardian's crime reviewer. She lives in Islington, London.
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