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2000s: The new series featuring DS Grace Allendale
2000s: The new series featuring DS Grace Allendale
A killer is on the loose, attacking people in places they feel most safe: their workplaces, their homes. It’s up to DS Grace Allendale to stop the murders, and prove herself to her new team.
All clues lead to local crime family the Steeles, but that’s where things get complicated. Because the Steeles aren’t just any family, they’re Grace’s family. Two brothers and two sisters, connected by the violent father only Grace and her mother escaped.
To catch the killer, Grace will have to choose between her team and her blood. But who do you trust, when both sides are out to get you?
A new series from Mel Sherratt and it’s firmly set in Stoke where the author lives. The raw reality of a city Mel is familiar with comes through loud and clear and it’s interesting to see it through Grace’s eyes too:
Bethesda Police station was situated in the street of the same name, at the bottom of the city centre. Before 1910, Stoke-on-Trent was made up of six towns. It became a federated city with a merger in that year, Hanley then becoming the main shopping centre of the Potteries.
Grce had already been told by several disgruntled members of the public that Hanley was not, and never would be, Stoke-on-Trent’s city centre as it was known on sigh pots. Stoke was the centre, it was where the railway station as situated and where the civic centre had been until recently. But to her. Stoke was a drive-through town with a few roads. It seemed that most of the money and resources were focused on Hanley, where was great for where she was based.
Destination: Stoke on Trent Author/guide: Mel Sheratt Departure Time: 2000s
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