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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The Fordhamton Trilogy
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This is an abridged and much amended version of the book first published in 2011. It still follows the police investigation into the sexual, political and economic affairs following the death of Alan Price in Fordhamton, a small English town. Price is killed when his car hits a brewery dray in a quiet country lane. Although he died of a fatal heart attack his irrational actions were found to have been caused by the discovery of an unknown drug in his system. Suspicion falls on the woman he had lunch with in the Crazy Horse Hotel but she cannot be traced. When eventually located her version of events seem reasonable to Harley; but as he and DC Miles Davis start interviewing those close to Alan Price they find that no one actually liked the man, maybe not enough to want him dead but preferably out of the way. Then grafitti starts appearing in town and someone sets fire to Alan Price's factory. Harley is promoted to a job in London and Davis continues to suspect that there are more affairs and conspiracies in town than first thought following the death of Alan Price. Such as a fraud in the Bank being conducted under his radar. He continues to dig further to unmask the most unlikely prime suspect behind the graffiti, arson and physical attacks on the Mayor and a fashion model.
Título : A Little Local Affair
EAN : 9781458048073
Editorial : John Barber
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