The Keeker Seam is Jez Lowe's FOUTH novel, following on from “The Dillen Doll” in 2017, “The Corly Croons” in 2019 and “Piper’s Lonnen” in 2022, and continues the adventures of Evan Piper, as he returns to mid-19th Century Tyneside with all its curious characters and outlandish ways, plus of course the rich tradition of music and song that erstwhile “Stranger from the South” finds so captivating.
A quote from the rear cover text –
“A 19th Century village in County Durham is blighted by an all-too familiar tragedy, an explosion down the mine, but this time with a curious twist that sends waves of surprise and confusion across the region. It is left to a newly arrived young policeman to solve the mystery, in the face of hostility from the mine-owners, suspicion from the miners and their families and an over-arching web of prejudice that reaches out from a distant foreign land. Only a scattering of odd characters and Tyneside eccentrics reach out to help him, along with a mysterious woman who captivates all those who come in contact with her.”
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