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2000s: You know who they are. But you don’t know what they’ve done.
The Dangerous Kind
What you need to know before your trail
We all recognise them. Those who sit just on the fringes of society. Who send prickles up the back of our necks. The charmers. The liars. The manipulators. Those who have the potential to go that one step too far. And then take another step.
Jessamine Gooch makes a living from these people. Each week she broadcasts a radio show looking into the past lives of convicted killers; asking if there was more that could have been done to prevent their terrible crimes.
Then one day she is approached by a woman desperate to find her missing friend, Cassie, fearing her abusive husband may have taken that final deadly step. But as Jessamine delves into the months prior to Cassie’s disappearance she fails to realise there is a dark figure closer to home, one that threatens the safety of her own family . . .
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London
The main setting of this novel is the busy newsrooms at BBC Broadcasting House and memories of Jessamine working at the Times. The author hasn’t worked at either and so this is not a real story! But it could be a newsroom anywhere.
The rest of the settings are vague and dotted in and around Oxford but these are settings for child abuse and so don’t appear on the BookTrail map.
Th eLondon depicted in this novel are a mere backdrop to the horror which takes place in the police, the newspaper investigations, the social services and on the mean streets of the capital city. In plain sight but scenes which no-one sees, or cares to see. Reminiscent of recent cases of gangs being investigated and jailed for child abuse cases.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Dangerous Kind
Destination : London Author/Guide: Deborah O’Connor Departure Time: 2002, 2003
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