1979

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Publicado por Little Brown.

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978-0-7515-8308-3
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She's on the hunt for a killer story . . .

  1. It's the winter of discontent, and Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. One of few women in the newsroom, she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously.

Soon Allie and fellow reporter Danny Sullivan are making powerful enemies with their investigations - and Allie won't stop there. When she discovers a terrorist threat close to home, she devises a dangerous plan to make her name.

But Allie is a woman in a man's world . . . and putting a foot wrong could be fatal.

The first novel in McDermid's newest series, 1979 is an atmospheric journey into the past with intriguing insight into the present, and the latest addition to McDermid's crime pantheon.

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reseñó 1979 de Val McDermid

Review - 1979

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The first in the Allie Burns series, 1979 was released in 2021 with the second, 1989 out in October 2022. It was the arrival of the second book that made me realise I hadn't read the the first - and then I realised I'm behind with the Karen Pirie novels (now a TV series into the bargain), and well, there are times when I worry that I'm not going to catch up with everything I want to read ever again.

But 1979, needless to say, is set in 1979, with journalist Allie Burns based in Glasgow and looking for the next big story that will make the boy's club at the paper she works for sit up and take notice. Back then, the sexism was overt, as was the harassment and the really bad behaviour, and Burns is struggling as a woman in the testosterone / booze soaked world of …