Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Gripping new crime thriller from Tor Raven. New genre, new characters, new style, fast, punchy and very readable.Download or Paperback.  OR  READ FREE with  KINDLE UNLIMITED

 Zara Vine is a modern woman with a troubled history and a talent for turning baggage into power. As the youngest Detective Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police she is forced to resign because of an armed response in which an innocent is shot. Her career in tatters, her marriage over and worst of all, the death of her only child, she decides to leap to oblivion from a famous cliff top. Saved by a Samaritan, she self-drives a rebirth and joins the Polechester City Police, the smallest UK force. Initially tasked with Cold Cases, she is called in to solve a series of murders with sinister undertones and national implications. But who exactly is she? Who are her real masters? What is her agenda? Dubbed the She Wolf and the alpha female, she drives all before her in the search for answers and uncovers crimes of world class horror in Book One. Written in a very modern style, compelling, taught with emotion, passion and fear, Zara Vine will draw you in and grip you right through to the stunning conclusion. It will also stir your conscience as it asks some of the questions few dare confront.

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Good Question. For which there is no answer. In spite of minor concessions and a blizzard of ministerial interventions all over the country, the expectation is that May will lose the vote on Tuesday. In the olden days before Cameron’s silly parliament act, that would have been the end of the government. But now it is possible, even likely, May will battle on. She does battling on. It’s her thing. A peculiar twist in a political and constitutional knot which cannot be unraveled, is that if she wins, the DUP will walk out of its confidence and supply agreement, meaning that the government will fall anyway before long.

As one opposed to the folly of the whole Brexit idea which in any form leaves this country and its people poorer, with diminished authority and curbed freedoms, I could live with May’s deal if it ever came to pass. This is because it essentially cedes a huge amount of political authority to the EU, particularly in areas of everyday life affecting ordinary people. Such is the incompetence of our own political class, the fiasco of Brexit and the inability to come up with a viable plan illustrates this, that we will all be safer, better off and more fairly treated if decisions are made by grown ups in the EU, while our own childish political brawlers are cut out of the loop.