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Black Earth

(2026)
(The first book in the Stoke Rising series)
A novel by

 
 
'Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing' Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy

Change will divide a country. Murder will destroy a family. 

Detective Constable Ian Wheedon has been running away from himself since he was a boy.  He worked in Merseyside covering serious crime, but now lives in a remote police house working as a local cop. His brother, Stephen, is on the front lines of the miners' strike in Stoke. The force is already stretched to breaking point when Ian is called in to investigate the brutal murder of their childhood''friend. The case brings Ian face-to-face with his past, his family, and with the life he left behind. As tensions erupt and tempers fray, the community fractures. But when Stephen's son Christopher goes missing, it becomes a race against time to solve the case. Ian and his family must fight for the answers they need and the future they want, before it's too late.


Genre: Mystery

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