{"id":1717,"date":"2014-03-31T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2018-03-14T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:28:08","slug":"the-cold-cold-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"**** The Cold, Cold Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adrian McKinty (narrated by Gerard Doyle)<\/strong> &#8211; In the bleak Belfast spring of 1981, hunger strikers in HM Prison Maze are starting to die. Paramilitaries are setting off bombs and gunfire rakes the streets at night. Police detective Sean Duffy&#8211;a rare Catholic in the Royal Ulster Constabulary&#8211;is presented with what looks like a &#8220;normal&#8221; murder case that soon blossoms into the possibility of a serial killer at work, targeting homosexuals. At that time, homosexuality was still illegal in Northern Ireland and not tolerated. In the mix is the apparent suicide of the beautiful ex-wife of one of the hunger strikers. Mysterious mail begins to arrive. The backdrop of violence is persuasively portrayed and hearkens back to real events and people. 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