Weirdo

by Cathi Unsworth

Twenty years ago, a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates.

But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didn't act alone, and Sean Ward - a private investigator whose promising career in the Met was cut short by a teenage drug dealer with an automatic weapon - travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth, to try to discover what really happened all those years ago. But he quickly realises that what's ultimately at stake is not Corrine's reputation, but those of the people who ran the place then - and still run it now.

In order to get to the truth, he has to take on not just retired Detective Inspector Len Rivett - the man who headed up the original case and wants to keep it firmly closed -- but also the mindset of an entire town that has always known how to look after its own.

• ISBN10: 1846687926
• ISBN13: 9781846687921
• Publish Date: 12 July 2012
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Out of Print: 26 June 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Serpent's Tail
• Edition: Main
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Twisty story, and the twist in the tale is a good un.

Corinne Woodrow was convicted of murder of a schoolmate when she was 15, in 1984. She was an outsider in the community and now, 20 years later, there's evidence that she might not have been alone. Sean Ward, whose career as a detective was cut short by a young man with a gun and now the metal in his leg reminds him of this constantly, investigates and what he stirs up, with the help of a local journalist, will change things in this small town.

Messy local politics, kept me reading and wanting more