Dead Wrong
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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Blurb
"Against the backdrop of Euro '96 and the soundtrack of Oasis, a summer of terror begins. Sal Kilkenny has two very frightened clients on her hands. Debbie Gosforth is the victim of a deranged stalker while teenager Luke Wallace is afraid he might be a murderer as he has, allegedly, stabbed his best friend Ahktar Khan to death. And then the IRA bomb Manchester's Arndale Centre and the city goes up in smoke."--Publisher description.
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