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Set during the year in question, the first part of Peace's Red Riding quartet follows a crime reporter on the Yorkshire Post as he investigates the bizarre murder of a young girl. He begins to discover that God's Own County is a seething pit of corruption, lust and perverse violence. Welcome to the 70s.
--Marshal Zeringue