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2000s: A woman hears news on a pirate radio channel, she really wishes she hadn’t.
2000s: A woman hears news on a pirate radio channel, she really wishes she hadn’t.
Shirley Steadman, a 70 year old living in a small town in the North East of England, loves her volunteer work at the local hospital radio. She likes giving back to the community, and even more so, she likes getting out of the house. Haunted by the presence of her son, a reluctant Royal Navy officer who was lost at sea, and still in the shadow of her long dead abusive husband, she doesn’t like being alone much.
One day, at the radio station, she is playing around with the equipment and finds a frequency that was never there before. It is a pirate radio station, and as she listens as the presenter starts reading the news. But there is one problem – the news being reported is tomorrows. Shirley first thinks it is a mere misunderstanding – a wrong date. But she watches as everything reported comes true. At first, Shirley is in awe of the station, and happily tunes in to hear the news.
But then the presenter starts reporting murders – murders that happen just the way they were reported.
And Shirley is the only one who can stop them.
Chester-le-Street (pronounced Chester Lee Street). Durham, North East England
The book is set in and around Chester le Street in Durham, in the North-East. The setting here really isn’t key and is more of a background. The real setting being the world of the radio and pirate radio at that.
Still, there are a few mentions of places in Chester-le-Street to show which Margaret believes will become crime scenes.
Chester-le-Street is a great north market town, home of the Riverside Cricket Ground and not far from the city of Newcastle which is also mentioned in the novel
Destination/Location: Chester-le-Street Author: Chris McGeorge Departure: 2000s
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