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    1974

    Written by David Peace

    Narrated by Mats Eklund

    3.5/5

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    December 1974, Yorkshire. Eddie Dunford får jobb som kriminalreporter på Yorkshire Post. Hans första uppdrag är att rapportera om det brutala mordet på tioåriga Claire Kemplay. Samtidigt försöker han hantera förlusten av sin nyss bortgångne far.

    Eddies instinkt säger honom att det finns ett samband mellan mordet på Claire och två andra flickor, Jeanette Garland och Susan Ridyard, som försvunnit i Yorkshire-trakten ett par år tidigare. Trots uppmaningar från flera håll om att inte lägga näsan i blöt fortsätter Eddie att gräva vidare.

    Bit för bit nystas sanningen upp. En död flicka med svanvingar fastsydda på ryggen, ett zigenarläger i lågor Eddies efterforskningar leder honom in i ett inferno av korruption, polisbrutalitet och sadism.

    DAVID PEACE [f. 1967] växte upp i Yorkshire på sjuttiotalet. 1974 är hans debut, första boken i den kvartett kriminalromaner som fått det samlande namnet Yorkshire-kvartetten [Red Riding Quartet]. Efter att i femton år varit bosatt i Japan är David Peace sedan 2009 tillbaka i Yorkshire.
    LanguageSvenska
    PublisherWord Audio Publishing International
    Release dateNov 21, 2012
    ISBN9789175230320
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    1974
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    David Peace

    David Peace grew up in Yorkshire in the '70's and vividly remembers listening to the hoax tape of the Yorkshire Ripper on his way home from school. He was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. He lives in Japan.

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    • 4/5
      Raw, gripping, dark, noir. These words are found in many reviews of this book, and I have to echo them. If you can't tolerate violence, harsh treatment of women or bad language, avoid this title. If you want a challenging, stomach churning and frustrating read this book is for you. That might not sound like a great commendation, but believe me this book is certainly a page turner. The corrupt world of Yorkshire in 1974, with journalist Edward Dunford on an evolving quest to investigate the disappearance of a series of young girls is vividly created.
      I have previously seen the series of TV films (excellent) based on the four books in this series - wish I hadn't but all the same a gripping read.
    • 4/5
      A young newspaper man goes rogue in order to keep the story he was covering about a missing girl. This novel features corruption, brutality, murder and an intricate plot that make "Chinatown" look like a YA novel. "It's all about the money," they keep telling Eddie, and yet he never walks away. There is no one trustworthy in his world--not even him, though his doggedness in pursuing connections makes him faintly admirable. Not for the faint of heart--sexuality, brutality--all told in a terse writing style that exceeds even Hemingway. Part of a tetrology that was also a gritty British series of films. Peace is someone to take seriously. I ordered and will be reading the other four.
    • 1/5
      I read this on recommendation and it's really not my sort of thing at all. Child murders, violence and corruption, and no-one with any empathy or even a shred of human decency. Short, choppy sentences and expletives throughout to make it seem dynamic and gritty but no characterization or coherent plot. I kept reading to the end in the hope that there would be some reasonable conclusion but there was just more torture. Needless to say I won't be picking up the rest of this series.
    • 5/5
      An excellent, if depressing, read. Yorkshire, 1974. A young girl goes missing, and North of England Crime Correspondent Edward Dunford follows the case with growing interest. Soon he discovers that the girl's disappearance might be linked to the abduction of two other girls, but that, as it turns out, is only the tip of the iceberg.It's really horribly depressing, but oh so very good. I can't honestly judge how well David Peace did with capturing the "spirit" of the time and place, but it sure feels very real. I love how driven the language is, and I love the mood it creates. And although I'm not sure it's the best way to praise a book I have to say that it contains a torture scene that almost made me throw up. It really got under my skin - not just that scene, but the whole book - and that is something not every book manages to do. I'm definitely going to read the other books of the quartet as well.Yorkshire, Weihnachten 1974. Ein junges Mädchen ist spurlos verschwunden. Edward Dunford, Gerichts-und Polizeireporter, stößt bei seinen Recherchen auf eine mögliche Verbindung zu zwei weiteren Entführungsfällen, kommt dabei aber den Reichen und Mächtigen von Leeds gefährlich nahe. Wie gefährlich, stellt sich heraus als einer seiner Kollegen bei einem "Unfall" ums Leben kommt...Ein düsterer Krimi, schockierend und atemberaubend gut.
    • 2/5
      I hate to sound like I'm channelling Mary Whitehouse, but this is possibly the most unnecessarily violent and vulgar novel I have ever read. Seriously. The author drops the f-word like Tourette's in print form - over 500 instances, according to Kindle - and his hapless narrator rarely crawls out of the gutter. Somewhere amongst the brutal sex scenes, vicious beatings and obscene language, a young girl is abducted and murdered, but I lost track of whodunit and why. I think Peace was going for a Chandler-esque noir mystery, set in the grim north during the grimmer 1970s, only he forgot to add characters that the reader might care about and a decent standard of writing. Jake Arnott's He Kills Coppers is similar in style and content, but about 100 times better. Still, at least I didn't have to suffer for long, because most of the narrative is monosyllabic dialogue - I'll let you guess the syllable of choice - and easy to skim through.I'm now going to scour my Kindle clean of the ebook, and wish I could do the same for my brain.
    • 1/5
      If you know me and are looking at the books I've read - probably best to skip this series.
      I'll put the same review on all four of them:
      Nineteen Seventy-Four
      Nineteen Seventy-Seven
      Nineteen Eighty
      Nineteen Eighty Three
      I read them as a challenge - based on camaraderie with coworkers.
      Once I started the series, didn't especially want to wimp out, and then was compelled to read thru to the last book to see if I could possibly figure out what the "ending" was.
      I'm not faulting the author - it was a unique and compelling writing style and twisted plot with characters jumping back and forth between books.
      I did it. I read them all. I think they got weirder and more difficult as they went along, but if you're looking for some intense, darkly challenging books - have at it.
      Read in 2011.
    • 3/5
      The first novel in David Peace's Red Riding Quartet is set in the Northern mining towns of Yorkshire and is relentlessly Noir. There isn't a bright moment, or even a pause for breath in the book. Edward Dunford is a young journalist who, while investigating the brutal torture and murder of a young girl, is drawn into a web of police corruption and brutality. Nobody's hands are clean. I like my crime novels dark and gritty, but this reached the outer edge of my tolerance, less for the violence, which was extensive, than for the bleak, hopeless picture of life in Northern Britain. So much for James Herriott's charming Dales.
    • 3/5
      In the author’s own words:“Crime is brutal, harrowing and devastating for everyone involved, and crime fiction should be every bit as brutal, harrowing and devastating as the violence of the reality it seeks to document. Anything less at best sanitises crime and its effects, at worst trivialises it.”Following this mantra, Nineteen Seventy Four is a brutal, harrowing read of police corruption, serial killing and man’s ability to inflict violence and cruelty on each other. I usually like books that have a dark edge to them, but Nineteen Seventy Four was simply too vicious and offensive for me to recommend this book to anyone. I disliked pretty much all the characters, the writing style was fragmented and edgy and the plot rather convoluted and at times difficult to follow. I was unsettled by this book, which perhaps was the authors intent, but I was also having to force myself to continue with the read.Unfortunately this is the first book in the Red Riding Quartet and I have the other three on my shelves. I will give this author one more chance, but I have a feeling that this series is simply too violent and bizarre even for me.
    • 4/5
      Finishing this book, I was reminded of my thoughts as I left the theater following my first and only viewing of Darron Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream: "That was an excellent film, and I never want to see it again."1974 is an incredibly well-written book about entirely terrible people doing entirely terrible things. I felt like I needed to wash my hands after finishing it. Peace's fast and tight prose pounds away you as you're reading--the setting is bleak, the characters are drunk, corrupt, and filthy, and things end badly for just about everyone involved.This book is not for everyone, and I would think twice before recommending to anyone. Nonetheless, it's quite good, especially if you're looking for something that took "gritty" and "noir" out back, knocked them around, kicked them in the teeth, then went and got drunk and vomited in a public restroom that hadn't been cleaned in weeks.
    • 4/5
      After watching the television series based on Peace's Red Riding Quartet (twice), I felt that I really wanted to find out the story behind the screen. I really enjoyed 1974, told from the perspective of the journalist who discovers the facts behind a series of deaths and the consequences of his findings. The book is fast paced, well written and at times quite gruesome.
    • 5/5
      This book, the first in Peace's "Red Riding Hood Quartet," is an excellent, dark, and twisted noir novel. Set in northern England in 1974, it is an example of crime writing at its grittiest. This book is not for everyone; the world that it depicts is gruesome, filled with violence against children and women, and corruption at every level of society. The plot is suspenseful, filled with action and tension. The narrator, Ed Dunford, is an unsympathetic but impeccably realized antihero. The book is a true nail biter, and a picture of a bleak society filled with unspeakable crimes. Sad, horrifying, and unputdownable: if you can handle the darkness, I recommend it. Four and a half stars.
    • 4/5
      A great read – raw, gritty, powerful stuff. I love the setting, which is the newsroom of a northern regional newspaper in 1974. There is just enough period detail included to let you know that this is then not now (but not in a self-conscious ‘Life on Mars’ sort of way). The style is very immediate, just right for this type of story. I can’t wait to see the Channel 4 series.
    • 4/5
      Don't have much to say about this one apart from that I liked the way it was written but Christ I'm glad I was only a baby in the seventies. Was it really that grim? I came to this through the Channel 4 dramatisation - and I will read the rest of the series... but not yet. Too depressing to read all in one go. Great writing though. I liked the rhythmic style in places and the pace was good. Only revealing bits and pieces made it a bit trippy and frustrating, like a bad dream - a good device to help you to empathise with the lead character though.
    • 1/5
      Long time since I have seen such crap. Joining my short list of unreadable books.
    • 5/5
      I had watched the TV adaptation of this book when it came out, and been rather impressed. The book also did not disappoint, the cloying oppressive atmosphere coming through despite the terseness of the sentences. The ordinariness and expectation of crime and violence the most horrifying thing. The past is another, grimier country, except of course, I was alive then.
      A tale of evil people, and it is up to the reader to decide who is the worst, the serial killer, the corrupt police and businessmen, the self-protective journalist... a proper thinking book.