The 1980s. Ah, the glamour, the music… the murders!!!

Huw Collingbourne was there. He knew the stars, he went to the nightclubs. And, in The 1980s Murder Mysteries, he tells it exactly how it was. This is a fast-paced, funny series of crime capers set among the New Romantics and Blitz Kids of 1980s London. If you like a few laughs with your murders, this is for you!

This is not just fiction. It’s how the ’80s really were!        

As a music journalist in the 1980s, Huw interviewed stars ranging from Boy George and Duran Duran to Spandau Ballet and Depeche Mode. He knows exactly what the ’80s music and club scene was really like. He was in the music studio when Depeche Mode recorded ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’, he went surfing with Haircut 100, he interviewed Motorhead’s Lemmy over a breakfast of vodka and orange, he shared fashion tips with David Sylvian of Japan and he revealed to an astonished world that Robert Smith of The Cure dresses up as his mother when he cooks curries.

Huw knows the people and the places. He went to Steve Strange’s Blitz Club, rubbed shoulders with Spandau Ballet at The Camden Palace and had lunch with Adam Ant at a trendy restaurant in Primrose Hill. He interviewed stars ranging from The B52s and The Weather Girls to Judas Priest and Buster Bloodvessel. He wrote for the cult magazine, ‘Flexipop!’ as well as ‘Number 1’, ‘Jackie’, ‘Kicks’ and a range of other eighties pop music mags. He was responsible for writing a Flexipop! photo-story about cannibalism, featuring psychobilly band, The Meteors, which caused the magazine to be seized by the police and banned from sale.

Never mind ’80s-themed TV series such as Stranger Things and Ashes To Ashes, this book is the real deal. If you want to know what the fashion-pack world of 1980s Britain was really like, look no further. The 1980s Murder Mysteries series faithfully recreates that world, with a few murders along the way.

1980s London – the music, the nightclubs, the glitz, the glamour! Whoever would have thought murder could be so much fun!