The Day of the Roaring

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A crime so shocking no one will talk
When the dismembered body of a headmaster is found on the derelict site of a former school in Sheffield, DI Diana Walker finds herself at odds with her department.

Her colleagues insist this is another instance of gang violence. Diana isnt so sure, but the case leaves her chasing shadows missing teachers, unreported crimes and silent witnesses.

Diana's search for answers leads to Sheffield's underserved communities, where she finds distrust, horrifying secrets and a whole new understanding of justice.

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'Everything I love about good crime writing: fierce, unflinching and enthralling. So accomplished, I would never have guessed it was a debut' Simon Lelic, author of The Hiding Place

Author Bio

Nina Bhadreshwar was born in Ipswich and raised in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, during the Yorkshire Ripper years and the Miners Strike. At nineteen, she trained and worked as a journalist at her local paper before setting up her own magazine, The Real State. Relocating to Watts, Los Angeles, following a tour with a Mexican-American theatre group, she covered the situation of the gangs post-truce and became the press officer and biographer of Death Row Records. She returned to the UK in her mid-twenties and re-trained as a teacher. Now, Nina is doing a PhD at Dundee University while writing her second novel. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglias Crime Fiction MA. The Day of the Roaring won Little Brown's UEA Crime Fiction award in 2022 and is her first novel.