Fracking the Fylde

They said fracking would make Blackpool a boom town. They said it would bring jobs and money. It did. For the whores, the drug dealers, the foreign cheap labourers, the local politicians, the ambulance-chasing lawyers. And for me, PI Mike Grady. I’m not saying I’m proud of it. It just happened that way. It started when Mrs Hall walked into my office. Her husband had drowned in the frackers’ water reservoir. The coroner recorded an open verdict. Mrs Hall wasn’t happy. I started digging. I came up with more than I bargained for. Pulp meets fracking, greed and corruption in the third in Alan Tootill’s series of Blackpool Novels.