Dan Starkey is a journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife Patricia an appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets Margaret, a beautiful and apparently impoverished student, and things begin to get out of hand. And then Margaret is murdered. This novel won the 1994 Betty Trask Prize.

This is the 1st of the Dan Starkey series and makes really good reading! A quick read which is quite gripping and rather unputdownable. Something for everyone in these books by Colin Bateman and even though it's not the usual genre of book I read the witty style of writing just softens it enough to make it very enjoyable. This is the 2nd in the series that I've read and I have a few more on Mt TBR. It certainly won't be long before I pick up another to read.

I have a special journey planned for this book and I hope the next reader enjoys it as much as I did.

Off to Katybean who won it in a book swap game on BCUK Extra.

Many thanks for this, it arrived safely today!

Katybean
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I couldn't get into this one :o( Will pass it on to someone who will enjoy it!

Katybean
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Received in the post this chilly morning.

Another humdinger from Colin Bateman ~ although this is a bit dated now it is still a well-woven and very funny story.

RELEASE NOTES:

On its way to a fellow BCUK Extra member as one of her May Birthday exchange books.

Thanks so much :o) I love Colin Bateman, this was the very first book I read of his many years ago it will be nice to revisit it.