Lizzie Steeples
Published on 5. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
335 pages
978-0-9935575-7-6 (ISBN)
Description
The backdrop to Lizzie Steeples is Lancashire in the mid 20th century with a declining cotton industry. It is a story of multiple rapes and murders. It is also the story of a young woman, struggling in those hard times, to bring up three children. Michael Yates describes the events preceding the tragic rape and murder of a young girl out to celebrate her 18th birthday. The police are then called to also investigate the murder of a man whose body is discovered twenty-four hours later in a disused mill. A young suspect is arrested and sent for trial but while he is in custody two more women are murdered and a third is badly beaten and raped, all in the same manner. The police uncover some startling evidence that confirms that there is another killer out there; nearer to home than anyone suspects? The backdrop to Lizzie Steeples is Lancashire in the mid 20th century with a declining cotton industry. It is a story of multiple rapes and murders. It is also the story of a young woman, struggling in those hard times, to bring up three children. Michael Yates describes the events preceding the tragic rape and murder of a young girl out to celebrate her 18th birthday.
The police are then called to also investigate the murder of a man whose body is discovered twenty-four hours later in a disused mill. A young suspect is arrested and sent for trial but while he is in custody two more women are murdered and a third is badly beaten and raped, all in the same manner. The police uncover some startling evidence that confirms that there is another killer out there; nearer to home than anyone suspects? This is a thriller with many unexpected twists and turns, right up to the final chapter.
The police are then called to also investigate the murder of a man whose body is discovered twenty-four hours later in a disused mill. A young suspect is arrested and sent for trial but while he is in custody two more women are murdered and a third is badly beaten and raped, all in the same manner. The police uncover some startling evidence that confirms that there is another killer out there; nearer to home than anyone suspects? This is a thriller with many unexpected twists and turns, right up to the final chapter.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-9935575-7-6 (9780993557576)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Michael Yates was born in Lancashire in the mid 20th century. He began his working life as an apprentice fitter in the cotton mills of Wigan in the mid 60's. As the cotton industry declined, he transferred his apprenticeship to general engineering but eventually returned to work in the textile industry for a further ten years. He then spent the next twenty-three years working in the car component industry. When faced with redundancy he became self-employed as a window-cleaner and also in the property maintenance business. After retirement he was determined to fulfill his life-long ambition to write. He entered a joke writing competition in what was then the TV Times and was runner up. This led to him being offered the chance to write jokes and scripts for comedy shows. He also wrote a book of poems. Lizzie Steeples is his first full length novel and he is already working on his next story. He is married to Carol and has two children, and is proud grandfather to Erin and Jake.