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David Ralph Martin
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Bridport author David Ralph Martin visits The Book Shop, Bridport to sign
copies of his latest novel "Dead man Slaughter".
David a one time script writer for the BBC, wrote for many TV series including 'Z Cars and Dr. Who, he admits to being the creator of K9, Dr Who's most famous robotic dog.
His
distinctive novels include: I'm Coming To Get You; Dead Man Slaughter.
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COMMUNITY POLICING WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE LIKE THIS Two rapes and a dead body in the space of six hours, racial tension exploding into an inner-city drugs war, his job on the line, his marriage out the window and a dumb straight kid like DC Cromer in tow - not just the average Saturday night for Detective Sergeant Vic Hallam. And it looks like it's going to get worse. Then he meets Ellie - a 26-year-old nurse still bleeding from sadistic brutal rape. And when things start getting personal, duty turns to revenge. Because Vic can't play by the rules. He hates her attacker as much as the bastard who's now screwing his wife. And whatever happens he's going to bring him down. And
somewhere out there's a maniac called Frank. Good-looking, woman-hating,
sex-obsessed. And with Ellie's life on the line, the one thing
on Vic's mind is: .................... |
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Seventy-three kilos of A-grade heroin, worth a cool few million pounds, have gone missing from Bristol's streets. Plenty of people on both sides of the law want to get their hands on it. But Julius Spicer, tipped to have been its likeliest liberator, has just been brutally murdered. DS Vic Hallam is sick of corruption in the force, his only diversion riling his superiors. Until his do-good partner, DC John Cromer, gets mixed up with the beautiful Opal MacAlpine, the murdered man's stepdaughter. Opal's a suspect in the murder and the closest connection to the heroin. She swears she doesn't know where the dead man's slaughter is but some heavy-duty underworld figures want to make her change her tune. Vic and Cromer, unwittingly in it up to their necks, find themselves protecting Opal in a race to retrieve the heroin. But the powers-that-be know more than they're letting on............ |
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