Robert Edric Boeken

It is 1847, northern England, and Charles Weightman has been given the unenviable task of overseeing the flooding of the Forge Valley and evicting its lingering inhabitants. Weightman is heartily resented by these locals, and he himself is increasingly unconvinced both of the wisdom of his appointment and of the integrity and motives of the company men who posted him there. He finds some solace, however, in his enigmatic neighbour, Mary Latimer. Caring for her mad sister, Mary is also an outsider, and a companionship develops between the two of them which offers them both some comfort and support in their mutual isolation. As winter closes steadily in and as the waters begin to rise in the Forge Valley, it becomes increasingly evident that the man-made deluge cannot be avoided; not by the locals desperate to save their homes, nor by the reluctant agent of their destruction, Weightman himself.In a masterful new novel, Edric captures powerful human emotions with grace and precision. The hauntingly resonant backdrop to this story of David and Goliath marks Edric’s dramatic return to historical literary fiction.

'A small masterpiece' The Spectator My Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely. With a novelist's eye, Robert Edric vividly depicts a now-vanished era: of working-men's clubs; of tight-knit communities in factory towns; and of a time when a woman's place was in the home. And he brings to colourful life his family, both close and extended - though over all of it hovers the vanity and barely-suppressed anger of his own father. My Own Worst Enemy is a brilliantly specific portrait both of particular time and place - the Sheffield of half a century ago - and a universal story of childhood and family, and the ways they can go right or wrong.

A new series of murders take place after a convicted child murderer offers to provide evidence against others and about police corruption in exchange for freedom.

Late Summer 1946: The Wash On The Fenland Coast. Into A Suspicious And Isolated Community Comes James Mercer, Until Recently A Serving Captain In The Engineers, Who Is Now Employed In The Demolition Of Redundant Gun Platforms. A Relationship Grows Between Mercer And The Wife And Daughter Of A Soldier Who Is Soon Expected Home - Though He Is Returning Not From Active Service But From A Sentence In Military Gaol, And His Arrival Is Awaited With Anxiety.Mercer Also Befriends Mathias, A German Prisoner Of War Engaged In Similar Work Who Has No Wish To Be Repatriated; And Jacob, A Jew, Former Glassmaker And Camp Survivor, Of Whose Devastated Journey To This Isolated Place Mercer Gradually Learns. He Learns, Too, Of The Bond Between The German And The Jew And Is Drawn Further Into Their History As The Ex-Soldier Finally Returns And Begins To Re-Establish His Overbearing Authority.In A Place Where Nothing Has Changed For Decades, The Agents Of Destruction And Renewal Are At Work And Everyone Begins To Search For His Or Her Piece Of Solid Ground. As The Summer Dies, Animosities Flare, Prejudices And Enmities Are Burnished And The Six Main Characters Circle Each Other Like The Combatants They Believe Themselves To Be Each Man Or Woman Constrained By An Intractable Moral Code, The Loss Of Which Is Unthinkable. And Mercer Finds Himself Caught In The Centre As Events Quicken To Their Violent And Unexpected Conclusion.In His Powerful New Novel, Edric Captures With Breathtaking Economy The Sense Of Portent And Uncertainty Shared By A Community In The Aftermath Of Conflict A Community For Which Peacetime Is Hardly Any Different To Wartime.

In this final part of the Song Cycle Quartet, published here for the first time, Hull private detective Leo Rivers is approached by a wealthy property developer. The man's only daughter is being blackmailed by a local drug dealer, to whom she owes money and who possesses compromising photographs of her, and Rivers is employed to deliver the money demanded and to keep the girl away from all that threatens to destroy both her and her father's ambitions in the city. It is soon clear to Rivers, however, that there is considerably more to this transaction than meets the eye, and that he is being used by both men to their own illegal and profitable ends. Following a vicious assault on Rivers and the death of two innocent men, the private detective is drawn into a world of drug-financed gang warfare and police corruption, each side playing him off against the other, until in a final unstoppable explosion of violence and killing, he is lucky to escape with his own life.

Krimi um einen Privatdetektiv, der die Wahrheit über den Tod einer spurlos Verschwundenen herausfindet.

Ein fesselnder Psychothriller, in dem in Hull zwei Prostituierte ermordet werden. Die Polizei verdächtigt Paul Hendry, doch seine Mutter glaubt an seine Unschuld und engagiert Privatdetektiv Leo Rivers. Dieser entdeckt Verbindungen zu einem Vorfall vor dreißig Jahren, der einen Rachefeldzug auslöst.