BLOODY VALENTINE

As seen on BBC TV 'A Killing in Tiger Bay'

JOHN L WILLIAMS MARKETING & SALES POINTS A notorious and the UK’s biggest-ever police corruption trial

This re-issue of John Williams' true-crime classic contains a new introduction and afterword to bring the story up to date

The case will be the focus of multiple upcoming TV projects for which the author has been interviewed, including documentary and true crime series for both BBC2 and Channel 5

Required reading for anyone interested in miscarriages of justice such as The , The Guildford Four or The Maguire Seven

In 2019, the murder of Lynette White was the subject of a 13 episode BBC Sounds podcast series, 'Shreds: Murder in the dock' Download high resolution image From the author of the cult classics Into the Badlands and The Trilogy, as well as the critically Pub. Date: 17 September 2021 acclaimed Fade to Grey (writing as John Lincoln), which was longlisted for the 2019 CWA Gold Dagger Price: £12.99 Award ISBN: 978-0-85730-469-8 Binding: Paperback Author's new biography, CLR James: A Life Beyond The Boundaries, will be published by Little, Brown in July and is expected to attract national press coverage Format: B (198 x 129mm) Extent: 224 THE BOOK Weight: Bloody Valentine is the story of the murder of a young woman called Lynette White in the Cardiff docklands Publishing World English Language (aka Tiger Bay) on Valentine's Day 1988. Rights: Sales World English Language It's also the story of the miscarriage of justice that came after, when three black men, 'the Cardiff Three', were Rights: wrongly convicted of her murder. It's a brutally frank tale of racism and police corruption, terrible misogynist Market: British Social History, Crime, True Crime violence and the grim realities of sex work. It's a book that got so close to the bone that the author was sued BIC Code: BTC: True crime for libel by the police and received death threats from a variety of minor characters. It's an indelible portrait of JKV: Crime & criminology JFF: Social issues & processes life in the underbelly of Thatcher's Britain. HBTB: Social & cultural history BISAC Code: TRU002000: True Crime : Murder : General HIS054000: History : Social History This new edition includes an introduction and afterword bringing the extraordinary, unhappy saga up HIS015070: History : Europe : Great Britain to date. : 20th Century THEMA Code: DNXC3: True crime: serial killers and murderers PRAISE FOR JOHN L WILLIAMS JKV: Crime & criminology JBF: Social & ethical issues 'Bloody Valentine is a bloody good book' - Benjamin Zephaniah Country of UK Manufacture: 'Complex, emotional and moving. Read it' - David Peace on Bloody Valentine 'Cardiff has never been so vibrant as in Williams' seductive and strangely moving novels' - Sunday Rpt. Code: IP Times on The Cardiff Trilogy Marketing & PR 'A synthesis of thriller and literary fiction, teeming with dangerous Cardiff lowlifes' - Independent on The Tel: 01582 766 348 [email protected] Cardiff Trilogy 'The sheer liveliness of the stories, which fizz with pace and energy, makes for a really entertaining and Oldcastle Books UK Distribution: Turnaround Harpenden 3 Olympia Trading Estate intriguing account of life on the mean streets of Cardiff' - Times on The Cardiff Trilogy Herts AL5 1EQ Coburg Rd Tel: +44 (0)1582 766348 London N22 6TZ 'An acute journey, alive with the stark and the surreal' - GQ on Into the Badlands Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 www.turnaround-uk.com JOHN L WILLIAMS (Location: London, UK) oldcastlebooks.co.uk/oldcastlebooks.co.uk/bloody- valentine John L Williams was born in Cardiff and now lives in London. He\'s written a dozen books ranging from his Cardiff Trilogy of novels to biographies of 2 characters as diverse as Michael X and Shirley Bassey. He also writes crime fiction under the name John Lincoln. His journalism has appeared everywhere from the NME to the Financial Times. He co-organises the riotous Laugharne Weekend festival in West Wales.

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