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|author=Colin Farrington
|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's Story
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=2014: 50 years since William Gilbey's father Herbert was hanged for murder. This anniversary is different from those in the past in that it's given William the impetus to go and find out more about two mystifying parts of his father's history. Firstly the oddity of the murder: why randomly kill two women in the street in daylight? Secondly, when William was a child, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War II. There's nothing in the history books so did this actually happen? This is definitely a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Sandford
|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become the mixed metaphor du jour. It's hard to say where it started, the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when ''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the books.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>
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