The Locals: A Contemporary Investigation Of The...
Matters might have ended there but for the fact that the delightfully named DCI Hannah Scarlett is put in charge of a new police team to investigate cold cases, a current fashion in the light of developments in forensic science unavailable to contemporary investigations. Hannah is particularly interested in the Barrie Gilpin case, as she had been Ben Kind's junior partner, and is aware that the older man was troubled about this particular case. When the case is formally re-opened, simmering old tensions boil over, both among the local suspects and among the relationships of the police, not least Hannah herself.
The Locals: A Contemporary Investigation of the...
The 2019 winner of the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award tells the story of Dr. Philip K. Talwo, a psychologist who is roped into investigating the lynching of three university students by a mob in a remote border town. There he has to contend with corrupt cops, university cults, cunning politicians, and dodgy locals. The result is a multilayered novel in which the investigation opens up a fascinating sociopolitical examination of contemporary Nigeria. 041b061a72