Haven’t read one of her books for years, the early ones are too violent for me, but there was limited choice in the library last week.
1979 was the year Thatcher was elected, but there is little reference to this, or its significance, in the book, unless I was missing something.
A story about two investigative journalists working for a Glasgow newspaper, who uncover in quick succession two scoops, one a rather implausible tax fraud, the other an attempt by radical (if amateur) Scottish Nationalists to further the cause by buying semtex from the IRA. The tax fraud exposé causes a major rift within the male journalist’s family, as his half brother is involved and loses his job. The journalists are both decent people, he a closet gay man and she, it appears towards the end, possibly coming out to herself and the reader as a gay woman.
The male journalist is murdered; there are loads of suspects but the perpetrator in uncovered by brilliant sleuth work by the woman.
Slow, but a good thriller/whodunit, but apart from being set (I assume) in 1979, the link to that year is opaque to me.
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