She Had To Die
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After five years she's back: the girl Nick Chance fell for at school. She went on to university, while he stayed in Bristol and tried to make a career in rock groups. Now he plays sax in a jazz/rock group, Blue Delta, due to play for the first time this year at Glastonbury. But then comes tragedy. When he helps Babette on a 'jaunt' to expose malpractice in a meat-processing plant she is killed in a horrific accident. Or was it an accident?
Nick is suddenly a 'person of interest' to the police, to intruders in his flat, to New Age apostles of extended life, to animal rights activists, even to workers at the plant. These activists are not soft-hearted. Their tactics include arson, bombs and death. Nick's quest to find what really happened leads him into the dark and complex world of food politics and a reeking broth of conspiracy, deceit and fraud, all of which comes to a boil the night Blue Delta first mounts the Glastonbury stage. It should be the night that makes Blue Delta, but will it be the night that breaks every dream he had?
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Russell has been a published writer for some 25 years, is an ex-Chairman of the Crime Writers Association, and has written a dozen and a half novels in the crime and historical genres.
He has also published various non-fiction works, including 4 illustrated biographical encyclopaedias: Great British Fictional Detectives and its companion work, Great British Fictional Villains, followed by the Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers & Poets, and its companion, the Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models.
His books include:
IN A TOWN NEAR YOU (Prospero)
THE CAPTAIN'S WARD (Prospero)
AFTER SHE DROWNED (Prospero)
STORIES I CAN'T TELL (with Maggie King) (Prospero)
THE NEWLY DISCOVERED DIARIES OF DOCTOR KRISTAL (Prospero)
EXIT 39 (Prospero)
RAFAEL'S GOLD (Prospero)
THE EXHIBITIONISTS (G-Press)
POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN ARTISTS & MODELS (Pen & Sword)
POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN WRITERS & POETS (Pen & Sword)
GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL VILLAINS (Pen & Sword)
GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL DETECTIVES (Pen & Sword)
THE MAUD ALLAN AFFAIR (Pen & Sword)
MY BULLET SWEETLY SINGS (Prospero)
REQUIEM FOR A DAUGHTER (Prospero)
NO ONE GETS HURT (Do Not Press)
PICK ANY TITLE (Do Not Press)
THE ANNEX (Five Star Mysteries)
PAINTING IN THE DARK (Do Not Press)
OH NO, NOT MY BABY (Do Not Press)
COUNT ME OUT (Serpent's Tail)
SLAUGHTER MUSIC (Alison & Busby)
PAYBACK (Gollancz)
DAYLIGHT (Gollancz)
UNDERGROUND (Gollancz)
