The Mersey Mothers is the 3rd of the Reckoner’s Row trilogy that tells the story of the inhabitants of a postwar Mersey dockside street who band together when times are hard, depend upon each other, share hopes, dreams, and the sorrows that life throws at them.
They are preparing for the street party celebrations for the new Queen Elizabeth 2 Coronation as well as Evie Kilgaren’s wedding to Danny Harris. But one mother isn’t sure she will be invited to attend the wedding ceremony, given the consequences of the past.
Ada Harris, the woman who reared Danny, has inherited a deadly secret she does not want to contemplate. Is Rene Kilgaren’s killer still walking free? Was the wrong man blamed? And is the real killer closer to home?
While Evie is trying to save Danny’s haulage business from going under, she wonders if there will ever be a wedding – and who is trying to take Danny down?
It’s all go in Reckoner’s Row.
I had mixed feelings about writing The Mersey Mothers. I wanted to get to the truth of the murder of Evie’s mother, six years earlier, but I was sad to say goodbye to the characters who seemed as real to me as people I know. However, when writing The End, I realised that there were still questions to be answered and plot lines to peruse, so who knows, maybe one day we will revisit Reckoner’s Row and the lively, colourful bunch of inhabitants, to see what they are up to.
The Mersey Mothers is out on the 19th April and is available to pre-order now.
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January sees the dawn of the Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation year as the mothers of Reckoners Row unite in preparation for the celebration of the new Queen.
Meanwhile Evie Kilgaren is dreaming of her summer wedding to Danny Harris, but trouble looms for Skinner & Sons with a new rival trying to put them out of business, but no-one knows why….
Ada Harris is summoned to the bedside of her estranged husband, who, in his dying moment confesses to a deadly secret – he knows who really murdered Evie’s mam Rene all those years ago and the consequences are far reaching.
Has an innocent man been jailed and is there still a murderer walking carefree?
Will Evie get the happy-ever-after she so longs for with Danny? And will The Mersey Mothers unite and still be friends?
January sees the dawn of the Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation year as the mothers of Reckoners Row unite in preparation for the celebration of the new Queen.
Meanwhile Evie Kilgaren is dreaming of her summer wedding to Danny Harris, but trouble looms for Skinner & Sons with a new rival trying to put them out of business, but no-one knows why….
Ada Harris is summoned to the bedside of her estranged husband, who, in his dying moment confesses to a deadly secret – he knows who really murdered Evie’s mam Rene all those years ago and the consequences are far reaching.
Has an innocent man been jailed and is there still a murderer walking carefree?
Will Evie get the happy-ever-after she so longs for with Danny? And will The Mersey Mothers unite and still be friends?
BIO:
Sheila Riley wrote four #1 bestselling novels under the pseudonym Annie Groves and is now writing a new saga trilogy for Boldwood under her own name. She has set it around the River Mersey and its docklands near to where she spent her early years.