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    Cold Cruel Winter

    By Chris Nickson

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    Second in the highly-acclaimed Richard Nottingham historical mystery series 1732. Richard Nottingham, Constable of the City of Leeds, is grieving the death of his daughter, but he must rouse himself from his lethargy when the body of wealthy wool merchant Samuel Graves is discovered, his throat slit, the skin razed from his back. Why would the killer want Graves' skin? When Nottingham receives a slim, bound volume entitled The Journal of a Wronged Man he discovers the shocking answer - and it hurls him into a desperate battle for survival against a ruthless killer with old scores to settle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateDec 23, 2011
    ISBN9781780100814
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    Cold Cruel Winter
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    Chris Nickson

    Chris Nickson is a popular crime novelist and music journalist whose fiction has been named best of the year by Library Journal. Specializing in historical crime, Chris is the author of the Richard Nottingham series for Severn House, as well as four series set in Leeds and the John the Carpenter series, set in medieval Chesterfield. A well-known music journalist, he has written a number of celebrity biographies as well as being a frequent contributor to numerous music magazines. He lives in Leeds.

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      Having thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this series, I was eager to see how the characters would develop in a further novel. As I mentioned in my review of The Broken Token, one of the things I really enjoyed about it was the interplay between Richard Nottingham and the supporting characters, such as his family and his deputy John Sedgwick. I was therefore pleased to see that the "supporting cast" gets plenty of development in Cold Cruel Winter. I was slightly disappointed to find that one of Nottingham's daughters had been unceremoniously killed off before the opening chapter, but this did provide for plenty of opportunities to explore Nottingham and his wife's relationship in the wake of their grief. My only small complaint was that the death of the elder daughter seemed to push Emily, the younger, rebellious daughter, who was such an interesting character in The Broken Token, much further into the background. She is described as having "lost her wilful ways" after her sister's death, and at the end of the book we see Nottingham and his wife planning to send her off to work as a governess. While it isn't suggested that Emily is unhappy with these plans, I couldn't help but feel slightly outraged on her behalf.This book also sees the character of Joshua Forester, the young cutpurse Nottingham took under his wing in The Broken Token, further developed and fleshed out. I really liked him as a character, and was glad that he was given a fairly prominent role in the story. His story is truly heartbreaking, and although I really hope we'll see more of him in future books, the ending of Cold Cruel Winter leaves this somewhat in doubt.As well as being an interesting and likeable character, Josh also acts as a device for exploring how the poor in Leeds lived, compared to the rich. This is a central theme of the book: the winter of the title is indeed cruel, and it is the desperate lives of those living in absolute poverty that are shown to be most greatly affected. And it is not just the winter that is cruel. Continuing a theme that was begun in the first book, Nickson illustrates the two-tiered system of justice in operation: where the murder of a powerful man is a top priority, but the killers of a poor Jewish peddlar are allowed to walk free because of family connections. Although the serial killer at the heart of this story is not portrayed in a sympathetic light, his story also centres around the gulf between the rich and the poor: he is a clerk from a poor background, motivated by revenge against the rich and the powerful that he perceives as having kept him from his just rewards.At heart, this is a good,solid crime thriller, with plenty of gruesome details to keep the reader interested. Beyond that though, the period detail, social commentary and compelling characterisation lift it above what could have been a fairly bog-standard genre piece. I loved it, and can't wait to start the third in the series!