Michael Tyne
Exactly twelve months ago, Elena “Nell” Kowalska, a young Polish singer, was brutally murdered in a back alley in the fading Lancashire resort of Molton-on-Sea. Her friends and family are still struggling to comprehend what has happened. Her cousin, an up-and-coming musician, Aleksander Janowski, has lost faith in the police and is conducting his own investigation into her murder under the watchful eye of their grandfather, Jozef, a former freedom-fighter. Meanwhile, Nell’s former flat mate and lifelong best friend, Laura Sterling, is grafting all hours in the town’s dilapidated Grand Hotel and still grieving.
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Then another, exactly similar, killing takes place at the Grand Hotel - and Laura finds the body. From that moment, the nightmare begins inexorably to intensify. The dark legacy of war and treachery reaches out from the past to inflame the grey winter town, and Laura and Janowski find themselves at the centre of a battle not just for answers, but for actual survival. Aided only by a motley group of friends - bartenders, entertainers, criminals and losers (plus a Village People tribute band) - they must find the answer to a secret whose magnitude they cannot even guess.
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At the heart of it, dark and brooding on the cold sea front, is the old Grand Hotel, its terrible history the key to the mystery....
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Praise for Sharkey
"I thoroughly enjoyed this, it straddles two worlds very nicely and has a wonderful element to it that reminded me strongly of the humanity in Terry Pratchett‘s work without being in the least derivative...The characters are strongly written, well rounded and you come to care about them very quickly. The social commentary is strong without being preachy and although the action is described in more broad strokes than the people it keeps you reading. The second reading has brought out lots that I missed the first time, (in my opinion the sign of a good book) and I’d recommend this to others even while it’s blimmin’ difficult to pigeonhole as to genre."
'Po Bear' - Amazon Reviewer
Thought provoking and moving
A beautiful, haunting book that brings back the magic of the tramps of old. This book was so beautifully written, I was gently enveloped into a different world. A world that exists all around us but we rarely notice. Michael Tyne is a wonderful wordsmith, and a magical storyteller. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this book.
'RW' - Amazon Reviewer
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