Mersey Murder Mysteries Collection - Books 1-3

Introduction

The year is 1961, and the city of Liverpool is just beginning to rock to the sounds of the new wave of popular music finding its way to the UK from the United States. At the birth of what would become known as "The Swinging Sixties" four young men come together with dreams of pop stardom in their eyes, and begin following that dream in Liverpool"s various clubs, some with illustrious names such as The Cavern and The Iron Door, but mostly in those venues little known outside the great port city. Playing for minimum fees, here, in the environment that would spawn such names as The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and more, Brendan Kane and the Planets begin their journey towards eventual recognition.

In what will become a sweeping tale of almost epic proportions, we skip to the eve of the millennium. It is 1999, and as the city of Liverpool undergoes a transforming programme of modernization and redevelopment, workers on a project to reclaim an old disused wharf and dockside warehouse uncover the skeletal remains of a long dead murder victim. Both kneecaps of the victim appear to bear the marks of a classic IRA "kneecapping" and before long, Detective Inspector Andy Ross and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Clarissa (Izzie) Drake, find themselves involved in an investigation that sends them back in time, back to those heady days of the sixties when the city rocked to the sound of the new brand of British popular music, but when passions greater than anything they at first envisage had led to the ultimate crime, cold-blooded murder! A chance clue leads to the eventual identification of the remains, and to a new mystery, involving a young woman, missing for over thirty years. When a new murder occurs, connected to the investigation, Ross realises the case is not quite as "cold" as it first appeared, and begins a race against time to prevent further killings as the past and present collide and the case takes a new sinister turn.