Sara Sheridan – London Calling
The second in the stylish series featuring Mirabelle Bevan. The year is 1952 and thousands of immigrants flood into the country from the Caribbean, changing the face of England’s capital. When Vesta’s cousin steps off the Windrush and bags a blues slot in a London nightclub, little does he know the world he is entering. He falls in with a crowd of louche English aristocrats, slumming it for kicks, but the story soon unfolds into a desperate tale of drug addiction, smuggling, prostitution and high fashion among the jet set, who will stop at nothing to get their kicks. He needs help – and cousin Vesta is on hand, with Mirabelle Bevan in tow.
About Sara’s previous novel – Brighton Belle, introducing Mirabelle and Vesta
1951 Brighton. With the excitement of the war over and the Nazi brought to justice at Nuremberg, Mirabelle Bevan (retired Secret Service) thinks her skills are no longer required. After the death of her lover he moves to the seaside to put the past behind her and takes a job as a secretary in a debt collection agency run by the charismatic Big Ben McGuigan. But when confronted by the case of Romana Laszlo, a pregnant Hungarian refugee, Mirabelle discovers that her specialist knowledge is vital. With enthusiastic assistance from the pretty insurance clerk down the corridor, Vesta Churchill, Mirabelle follows a mysterious trail of gold sovereigns, betting scams and corpses to a dark corner of Austerity Britain where the forces of evil remain alive and well.
About Sara
Sara Sheridan is an historical novelist who writes two different kinds of books. One is a series of cosy crime noir mysteries set in Brighton in the 1950s and the other is a set of novels based on the real-life stories of late Georgian and early Victorian explorers and adventurers (1820 – 1845). She received a Scottish Library Award for Truth or Dare, her first novel, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Book Prize. An occasional journalist and blogger, Sara appears on BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent and blogs for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. She is a twitter evangelist and a self-confessed swot. Sara sits on the Committee of the Society of Authors in Scotland where she lives and also on the board of the UK-wide writers’ collective ‘26’ and took part in the acclaimed 26 Treasures project in 2010 at the V&A, in 2011 at National Museum of Scotland and in 2012 at the Children’s Museum, Bethnal Green. She is a member of the Historical Writers Association and the Crime Writers Association. Sara also mentors for the Scottish Book Trust.
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