All Saints

Dedicated to the memory of John Gill, 1945 – 2015Former Karting and lawn mower racing champion John Gill was the husband of a dear friend. Just two weeks before his sudden and tragic death, John wrote a glowing review of the first book in this series, A Mersey Killing. It turned out to be the last review the book received before his untimely death. With the permission of his widow, Carole, I have dedicated All Saints, Murder on the Mersey to John's memory, in the firm belief he would have enjoyed this second instalment of the Mersey Mysteries series. John's review of A Mersey Killing: A MERSEY KILLING IS FAB A Mersey Killing, as well as being a great story, succeeded in taking me back to the days of my own youth. The hopes, dreams and aspirations of a generation were perfectly summed up here by young Brendan Kane who simply wanted 'something more than his Mum and Dad had, maybe one of those new colour television sets'. Few of us had them back then unless you had plenty of money. Nothing too grand in his ambitions then, and that's the great thing about the book. It recreates the sixties just as it was for those of us who lived through those heady days of The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, et al. The author's descriptions of sixties life were bang on, right down to the washing drying on the old wooden clothes horse in front of the coal fire, which had to be kept going in the summer to heat the water! As we moved to the nineties, the investigation into the skeletal remains found in the old disused Cole Brothers wharf sets in train an investigation that leads the detectives right back to those early years of the Merseybeat, with murder, betrayal and a missing woman thrown into the equation. As D.I. Ross and Sergeant Drake delve into the past, we eventually learn the tragic secret of A Mersey Killing… simply fab!