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Black Earth
Stoke Rising (Related to this series)
- Author
- Kate London
- Narrator
- To be confirmed
- Publisher
- Firefinch Publishing
- Publish Date
- 5 November 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing' Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy
A family shattered. A community divided.
1959. A group of boys from the mining village of Murton run out to play together. When a tragedy occurs, it changes the lives of these boys and everyone around them forever, sending shockwaves that reverberate through their lives.
1984. Detective Constable Ian Weldon has been running away from himself since he was a boy. He worked in Merseyside covering serious crime, but now lives in a remote police house working as a local cop. His brother, Stephen, is on the front lines of the miners' strike in Stoke.
The force is already stretched to breaking point when Ian is called in to investigate the brutal murder of a childhood friend. The case brings Ian face-to-face with his past, his family, and with the life he left behind. As tensions erupt and tempers fray, the community fractures. When Stephen's son Christopher goes missing, it becomes a race against time to solve the case. Ian and his family must fight for the answers they need and the future they want, before it's too late.
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- Author
- Kate London
- Narrator
- To be confirmed
- Duration
- 7 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 November 2026
- ISBN
- 9781918107319
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Firefinch Publishing
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Synopsis
'Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing' Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy A family shattered. A community divided. 1959. A group of boys from the mining village of Murton run out to play together. When a tragedy occurs, it changes the lives of these boys and everyone around them forever, sending shockwaves that reverberate through their lives. 1984. Detective Constable Ian Weldon has been running away from himself since he was a boy. He worked in Merseyside covering serious crime, but now lives in a remote police house working as a local cop. His brother, Stephen, is on the front lines of the miners' strike in Stoke. The force is already stretched to breaking point when Ian is called in to investigate the brutal murder of a childhood friend. The case brings Ian face-to-face with his past, his family, and with the life he left behind. As tensions erupt and tempers fray, the community fractures. When Stephen's son Christopher goes missing, it becomes a race against time to solve the case. Ian and his family must fight for the answers they need and the future they want, before it's too late.
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