Stephen Larkin Series by Martyn Waites
Stephen Larkin #1
Mary's Prayer
Martyn Waites
Sober and disillusioned with London, tabloid journalist Stephen Larkin reluctantly accepts an assignment to cover a gangland funeral back home in Newcastle. Several years earlier he had left sick and disgusted, vowing never to return, but the pull of the city, and the promise of a juicy story, finally persuades him to return. While there, Larkin's old flame Charlotte asks him to check out the alleged suicide of her friend Mary - a course of action that will leave Larkin bruised, battered and with some painful memories of the city he was trying to forget. Dark, compelling and relentless, Mary's Prayer is a razor-edged crime debut from a powerful new voice in crime fiction.
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Stephen Larkin #2
Little Triggers
Martyn Waites
Stephen Larkin is back in his native Newcastle and working as an agency
journalist. To stop himself getting bored, he's fighting greed and
corruption in his inimitable way by blackmailing the powers that be
into keeping their campaign promises. It doesn't help fill the empty
spaces in his life, though. He needs a purpose - which is why he jumps
at the chance to track down a child abuser with friends in high places.
A cynic like Larkin is automatically suspicious of people like Alan
Swanson. A charismatic local chancer and self-styled Minister for
Youth, Swanson is the man behind the "Rebirth of the Region" project.
But is his interest in kids a chance for a photo-opportunity or
something more sinister? Larkin thinks that, as a reporter, he knows all
there is to know about the evil that men do. But nothing has prepared
him for this...
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