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Imprint: Bedford Square Publishers
Category: Crime & mystery, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Series: Atbara Avenue
It’s 1970, which means that the residents of Atbara Avenue, against all odds, have pottered their way into a new decade; one that will bring decimalisation, miners’ strikes, punk rockers, and platform shoes. These good people are not, however, afraid. As long as they have enough bunting to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and The Archers reign in Ambridge, such era-defining events will roll over them like passing clouds, high up and far away.
Not that life on the Avenue is entirely dull. There are new arrivals! The Savage-Roth sisters have moved into the Laurels, and vicar’s wife Deirdre is helping them with the loan of her keenest Girl Guide, Susan, who will learn all sorts of things from the elderly pair… Perhaps the locals should be relieved to wave farewell to the last ten years and start looking forward to more positive times to come. What could possibly go wrong now?
RRP: £18.99
ISBN: 9781835015209
Published: March 25, 2027
Extent: 320 pages
RRP: £9.99
ISBN: 9781835015216
Published: March 25, 2027
‘Marris’ skill is in warmly and humorously tackling very serious and sometimes scary topics: family members trapped together in loathing, male violence against women and girls, the fear that every parent feels when their child is sick or hurt, the crushing consequences of purity culture for young women and their children. These are small, domestic horrors; that is exactly part of their horror. Her characters and their impulses, yearnings, misunderstandings, and (un)certainties ring delightfully true, and so the unpleasantness slips by, only to catch up with us later’ Dominique Gracia
It’s 1970, which means that the residents of Atbara Avenue, against all odds, have pottered their way into a new decade; one that will bring decimalisation, miners’ strikes, punk rockers, and platform shoes. These good people are not, however, afraid. As long as they have enough bunting to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and The Archers reign in Ambridge, such era-defining events will roll over them like passing clouds, high up and far away.
Not that life on the Avenue is entirely dull. There are new arrivals! The Savage-Roth sisters have moved into the Laurels, and vicar’s wife Deirdre is helping them with the loan of her keenest Girl Guide, Susan, who will learn all sorts of things from the elderly pair… Perhaps the locals should be relieved to wave farewell to the last ten years and start looking forward to more positive times to come. What could possibly go wrong now?
"Fresh Blood on the Avenue" was written by Gay Marris.
Dr. Gay Marris is a retired research scientist. Her career focused on insect ecology, parasites and honey bee health. Her first novel, The Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder, set in the suburbs of the deceptively dangerous suburbs of 1960s London, where she grew up and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey First Novel Prize. Her second novel, The Beasts of the Black Loch, is the first in the Natural History of Murder series. Gay now lives in York with her husband, a cat and a tortoise.
Yes, "Fresh Blood on the Avenue" is part of the "Atbara Avenue" series. It's book 2 in the series.
Dr. Gay Marris is a retired research scientist. Her career focused on insect ecology, parasites and honey bee health. Her first novel, The Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder, set in the suburbs of the deceptively dangerous suburbs of 1960s London, where she grew up and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey First Novel Prize. Her second novel, The Beasts of the Black Loch, is the first in the Natural History of Murder series. Gay now lives in York with her husband, a cat and a tortoise.
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