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On Leap Year Day in 1964, an attractive teenager called Carole Jeffries was strangled in a Liverpool park. The killing caused a sensation: Carole came from a prominent political family and her pop musician boyfriend was a leading exponent of the Mersey Sound. When a neighbour confessed to the crime, the case was closed. Now, more than thirty years later, Ernest Miller, an amateur criminologist, seeks to persuade lawyer Harry Devlin that the true culprit escaped scot free. Although he suspects Miller's motives, Harry has a thirst for justice and begins to delve into the past. But when another death occurs, it becomes clear that someone wants old secrets to remain buried - at any price...

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Martin Edwards (born 1955) trained as a solicitor and specializes in all aspects of employment law. He has created two highly successful crime series as well as authored some 40 crime shorts. The first in his Harry Devlin series (All the Lonely People) was short-listed on publication for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger for the best first crime novel of the year. Martin is a member of the Murder Squad collective of crime writers and is chairman of the nominations sub-committee for the CWA Diamond Dagger, crime writing's most prestigious award. In 2007 he was appointed the Archivist of the Crime Writers' Association and in 2011 he was appointed the Archivist of the Detection Club.

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