John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.
This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author's main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.
John Barber's novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.
They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.
He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from Smashwords
John Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.
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When the Rutherford Member of Parliament is found in a sexually comprimising situation he is forced to resign sparking a by-election. An advert in the local newspaper is decoded by Government sources to be notice of an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister who is due to visit Rutherford during the election campaign. Detective Inspector Steve Winwood is told to remain at his desk to filter all intelligence reports whilst his sergeant Archie Tibble is seconded to Inspector Ruth Coleman on serveillance duties. Before they assume their new roles Les Wade a reclusive rock star is found dead in his home shot in the head in the style of an execution. Winwood can find no motive, suspect or reason for the killing. Archie and Ruth keep a close watch on the social and political events in town and try not to let their professional relationship become a sexual one. Winwood is allowed more time to investigate the Wade killing before the Area Murder team take over and slowly uncovers Wade's past. He befriends a dying man in the Fleetwood Arms Hotel and with the latter's guidance uncovers a Government's involvement in a cover-up of a murder over 30 years previously, how it led to the killing of Les Wade and a thirty year old secret romance.
Caution: explicit sexual content from the beginning.
Título : Seven Days in May
EAN : 9781311858146
Editorial : John Barber
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