A Quiet Contagion (Paperback)
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A Quiet Contagion (Paperback)

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Paperback 320 Pages
Published: 28/11/2023
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Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret.

1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.

2017. Phiney is shocked by the death of her grandfather, Wilf, who has jumped from a railway bridge at a Coventry station. Journalist Mat Torrington is the only witness.

Left with a swarm of unanswered questions, Phiney, Mat and Wilf's wife, Dora, begin their own enquiries into Wilf's death. It is soon clear that these two events, sixty years apart, are connected - and that Wilf is not the only casualty.

But what is the link? And can they find out before any more lives are lost?

Publisher: Verve Books
ISBN: 9780857308498
Number of pages: 320
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Jesmond's thriller incorporates a very likeable protagonist and a really twisty plot with a thought-provoking moral dilemma - John Williams, Mail on Sunday

A poignant, heart-rending read - Woman's Own

It's a tight plot, and the red herrings had me guessing unsuccessfully all the way through as to what happened and who was to blame-just what any thriller writer wants from their reader. A very satisfying read - Historical Novel Society

Jesmond ... mines intriguingly a tragic historical episode - The Times (Best New Thriller for December)

A well written story, with excellently created characters. This blend of history and contemporary, fact and fiction is original and engrossing - Mature Times

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“A well constructed mystery thriller”

This is a gripping standalone mystery thriller with science & cover-up all rolled in to one.

1957 doesn’t sound that long ago but it is & so much has changed in the world including medical advances since... More

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“Clever and well researched”

A clever, well researched novel centered on an outbreak of Polio in 1957 in Coventry and the Pharmaceutical company that made the vaccine. Told in a dual timeline, it makes an exciting thriller as mistakes made then... More

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“An extremely well researched thriller ..5*'s”

I thoroughly enjoyed this extremely well researched thriller set around a polio outbreak in Enland in the late 1950's. Told in a dual timeline, 1957 and 2017, the mystery runs through the book and keeps... More

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