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Bloomsbury presents Turning Blue by Benjamin Myers read by Andrew Macintosh
Ben Myers is the master of English rural noir and with Turning Blue he has created a whole new genre folk crime this is by turns gripping ghastly and unputdownable PAUL KINGSNORTH
In the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet a teenage girl Melanie Muncy is missing
The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches its best man to investigate DI Jim Brindle may be obsessive taciturn and solitary but nobody on the force is more relentless in pursuing justice Local journalist Roddy Mace has sacrificed a highflying career as a reporter in London to take up a role with the local newspaper For him the Muncy case offers the chance of redemption
Darker forces are at work than either man has realised On a farm high above the hamlet Steven Rutter a destitute loner harbours secrets that will shock even the hardened Brindle Nobody knows the bleak moors and their hiding places better than him
As Brindle and Mace begin to prise the secrets of the case from the tightlipped locals their investigation leads first to the pillars of the community and finally to a local celebrity who has his own hiding places and his own dark tastes
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