The Ugly Man (Short Story)

A Dani Lancing Story

by P.D. Viner

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Pub Date 1 Aug 2014 | Archive Date 7 Sep 2015

Random House UK, Ebury Publishing | Ebury Digital

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

The summer of 1976.

The whole country baking in a heatwave. And in a sleepy Derbyshire village a man, known locally as the Ugly Man, walks into his local with a claw hammer and in front of everyone brutally murders the young woman behind the bar.

For Patricia Lancing, juggling the demands of being a wife and mother alongside her desire to get recognition as an investigative journalist, this could be the case that makes her career...

If she survives it.

The summer of 1976.

The whole country baking in a heatwave. And in a sleepy Derbyshire village a man, known locally as the Ugly Man, walks into his local with a claw hammer and in front of everyone...