The Miners' Strike Mystery — David Williams

Ken Frane returns to the Valleys of his childhood. Antediluvian anti-hero reopens a cold case from the Miners' Strike, when he was a beat copper in Cardiff, called back to police the industrial dispute. Ken Frane 'Last of the Cardiff Docks' detectives' on his second adventure, on home turf this time, having returned none too successfully from Leiden in the Netherlands in the first novella. The charred remains of striking miner Andy Halligan are found on a mattress up the Twyn in 1985 and it wasn't because he was a scab. This is an anti-detective novel which rejects the expected outcome of restored order found in most mysteries.STRONG LANGUAGE/ADULT CONTENT Over 16 Advisory