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Lockdown (novel)
''Lockdown'' is a 2020 mystery thriller by Scottish crime writer Peter May, set against the background of a deadly influenza pandemic. He wrote it in 2005, but it was rejected for publication as unrealistic. It was published in April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting lockdowns. Plot summary Five months into an influenza pandemic that kills 80% of those affected, London is in lockdown. The city is under military control, a strict curfew is in force and there is extensive public surveillance. Among those who have died from the virus are the prime minister and members of his family. Detective Inspector Jack MacNeil is ordered to investigate the discovery of fresh human bones found at a building site in Lambeth. A thumbprint on a London Underground ticket found at the scene takes him along a chain of clues, eventually leading to an empty house in Wandsworth. At every step of the way, he is surreptitiously followed by a sociopathic killer who calls himself Pink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter May (writer)
Peter May (born 20 December 1951) is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. He is the recipient of writing awards in Europe and America. ''The Blackhouse'' won the U.S. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the national literature award in France, the Cezam Prix Litteraire. ''The Lewis Man'' won the French daily newspaper ''Le Télégramme''s 10,000-euro Grand Prix des Lecteurs. In 2014, ''Entry Island'' won both the Deanston's Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the UK's ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award. May's books have sold more than two million copies in the UK and several million internationally. Early life Peter May was born in Glasgow. From an early age he was intent on becoming a novelist, but took up a career as a journalist as a way to start earning a living by writing. He made his first serious attempt at writing a novel at the age of 19, which he sent to Collins where it was read by Philip Ziegler, who wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton Rock (novel)
'' Brighton Rock'' is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938 and later adapted for film and theatre. The novel is a murder Thriller (genre), thriller set in 1930s Brighton. The first of Greene's works to explore Catholic themes and moral issues, its treatment of class privilege and the problem of evil is paradoxical and ambivalent. Plot There is an incidental link between this novel and Greene's earlier ''A Gun for Sale'' (1936), in that the murder of the gang boss Kite, mentioned in ''A Gun For Sale'', allows the seventeen-year-old antisocial personality disorder, sociopath Pinkie to take over his gang and thus sets the events of ''Brighton Rock'' in motion. The murder of Kite had been brought about because of a report by Charles "Fred" Hale in the ''Daily Messenger'' about his slot machine racket. Now Hale has been sent to Brighton to distribute cards anonymously for a newspaper competition and realises that he is being hunted by Pinkie's mob. Hale meets middle-aged Ida A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Set In London
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
