This is the second anthology of short stories published by members of the northern chapter of the Crime Writers Association. ‘Variety is the hallmark of the contributions’ wrote editor Martin Edwards in his introduction. It includes an early story from Val McDermid. Ann Cleeves and Martin Edwards allowed their series detectives, Inspector Ramsay and Harry Devlin to take a break while they tried their hands at a different kind of story, while Reginald Hill provided a treat for all Dalziel and Pascoe fans with a story htherto seen only in truncated form. Dame Ngaio Marsh provided two posthumous items in the shape of talks discovered in the archives of New Zealand Radio by Margaret Lewis.
The full contents are:
| Gerard Benson | Poem: R.I.P. |
| Peter N Walker | Foreword |
| Martin Edwards | Introduction |
| Robert Barnard | Dog Television |
| Chaz Brenchley | Drowning, Drowning |
| Ann Cleeves | The Harmless Pursuits of Archibald Stamp |
| Barbara Crossley | Right Between the Eyes |
| Eileen Dewhurst | A Tour Too Far |
| Roger Fosdyke | Act of Kindness |
| Reginald Hill | Where the Snow Lay Dinted |
| Margaret Lewis | A Bend in Time |
| Peter Lewis | Borrower of the Night |
| Val McDermid | Heartburn |
| Kay Mitchell | Intimate Voices |
| Stephen Murray | Wilfred's Last Do |
| Alan Stewart | The Old Folks' Home Murder |
| Barbara Whitehead | Simple When You Know |
| Douglas Wynn | Who Fired the Fatal Shots? |
| Ngaio Marsh | Two Talks
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Northern Blood 2 costs £7.95 and was published in 1995.
ISBN: 978-1-873226-14-8
Martin Edwards is the author of two acclaimed series of crime novels, one set in Liverpool and the other in the Lake District. He is chairman of the nominations sub-committee for the Crime Writers’ Association’s most prestigious award for lifetime achievement, the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger, and in 2007 he was appointed the Archivist of the CWA.
A member of the Murder Squad collective, he received the CWA Short Story Award in 2008 for The Bookbinder’s Apprentice. He has edited several anthologies, including Northern Blood 2 from Flambard.
Martin is a partner in a firm of solicitors, working in Merseyside and living in Cheshire.
Web site:www.martinedwardsbooks.com
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