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Looking for Trouble

by Cath Staincliffe · 1994

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She's a single parent. A private eye. And liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son. Sal's search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a world of deprivation, of well-heeled organized crime and, ultimately, murder.

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crimecrimeMore like thisLess of thisBritish mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of this
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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisManchesterManchesterMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult

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