Striking Murder

STRIKING MURDER, A.J. Wright, 2016 Taking place in the town of Wigan in 1893, it is winter, and an unusually harsh one at that. The people here are poor, but when the story begins, the people have been completely devastated by a coal miners' strike that has left them without food for their families;......more

Set in Wigan in late-1893 during a crippling strike/lockout, this is a pretty good murder mystery particularly for the setting and the social history more-so than the occasionally slow investigation into the killing of wealthy mine owner, Arthur Morris, in a poor part of town. Sergeant Brennan and C......more

A mysterious death with many suspects The death of an unpopular mine owner in a part of Wigan where the miners lived who hated him for causing great hardship in a current strike, had plenty of suspects. Sergeant Brennan gradually pieces together disparate threads to get to the culprit. Excellent plot......more

This was a real hard-to-put down read set in a really gritty time and place - a miners' strike in Wigan in the late nineteenth century. I really like the detective sergeant coping with the, typical of the period, chief constable who expects his gentry friends to be treated with kid gloves!......more