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Crime fiction with Mat Coward
Reviews of Indian Summer, A Single Source, The Boy Who Lived With the Dead and The Unnatural Death Of A Jacobite

INDIAN SUMMER by Sara Sheridan (Constable, £8.99) continues the adventures of Brighton-based debt collector and amateur detective Mirabelle Bevan.

It’s now 1957 and Bevan, like so many, still misses the straightforward sense of purpose she knew during the war years, especially at a time when the previous generation’s struggle towards sexual equality seems to be paused.

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