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NEWS FLASH:

*The Head Case has arrived!  Published today by Caton Books. Available 
  from Amazon or via any Bookshop.   ISBN 978-0-9564220-0-2


*A Big Thank You to the 40 or so people who turned up for the Reading and
  Question and Answer Session at The Chorlton Book Festival on Tuesday
  night. Thanks also to Dave Green for hosting the session.  If you were one of
  those who took a copy of The Cleansing away do let me have some feedback
  either by email or preferably on my blog. 

*Caton Books - an Independent Publishing House - will publish four more
  titles in the Tom Caton Series by Summer 2010. Click on the logo below to visit catonbooks.com.

 
THE CLEANSING

About This Book

Christmas approaches. A killer dressed as a clown haunts the streets of Manchester.  For him the City’s miraculous regeneration had unacceptable consequences.  This is the reckoning.  DCI Tom Caton enlists the help of forensic profiler Kate Webb, placing her in mortal danger.   The trail leads from the site of the old mass cholera graves, through Moss Side, the Gay Village, the penthouse opulence of canalside apartment blocks, and the bustling Christmas Market, to the Victorian Gothic grandeur of the Town Hall.   

Time is running out.  For Tom, for Kate…and for the City.

 

The Cleansing, was Short listed for the Long Barn Books Debut Novel competition.


About The Author

A former Principal Inspector of Schools for the City Of Manchester, Head of the Manchester School Improvement Service, and currently Fellow and judge of the Teaching Awards, Bill Rogers has numerous publications to his name in the field of education.  For four years he was also a programme consultant and panellist on the popular live Granada Television programme Which Way, presented by the iconic Tony Wilson.  He has written six crime thriller novels to date – all of them based in and around the City of Manchester. 

The Head Case
About This Book
Roger Standing CBE, Head of Harmony High Academy Trust, and the Prime Minister's Special Adviser for Education, is dead.  DCI Tom Caton is not short of suspects.  But if this is a simple mugging, why is MI5 ransacking Standing's apartment? And why has the widow and her son taken the news so calmly?  Something is rotten in the corridors of power.


 Also By Bill Rogers & Coming soon

The Tiger’s Cave

A Fatal Intervention

A Trace of Blood

Bluebell Hollow

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Dovegrey reader wrote: " A nice juicy crime read!"  To read the whole review and see a video of a brilliant Morecombe and Wise take on, The Blue Lamp, click on the link below.

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Buy this book
in paperback  from all main book retailers, or click on the image above to buy online from Amazon.  If you're flying out of Manchester Airport you'll find it in WHSmith all of the Departure Terminals.

Readings, Events, and Book Signings

A Big THANK YOU to everyone who braved the rain and turned up at BORDERS at Manchester Fort for the book signing, or the Chorlton Book Festival. It was lovely to meet you.  I hope you enjoy The Cleansing.  By all means email me your comments, and ideas.  After all, it's you I'm writing for. 


Future Events:
Bolton Writer's Group at The Friends' Meeting House Silverwell Street Bolton 2-4pm Mon 23rd November.

St Andrew's WI, Over Hulton, 7.30pm Tues 2nd Feb 2010

Atherton Reader's and Writers Group Atherton Library  10-12  16th Feb 2010

Bolton Library Reading and Book Signing in conjunction with Sweeetens of Bolton  TBA

 

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

And a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who tuned into the interview with Becky Want  BBC Radio Manchester. Especially those who stuck it out for the full hour and took the trouble to let me know they enjoyed it.  I have to say, so did I!

Link to Tom Caton's World
 
 
 
 

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