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No Logical Connection

Journalist Mike Stanhope is back in Cornwall, where he once lived with former girlfriend Ashley. It’s a working visit, but while he’s there she asks him to help her friend Giles fend off an online blackmail threat.

Mike cautiously agrees, but then Giles disappears. Should Mike try to find him, or work out what the blackmail is about? Before he reaches any conclusion, he finds himself contending with a series of distractions – a burglary, a batch of missing paintings, a hint of a long-forgotten murder, and a thwarted company takeover.

There must be a news story here, but what is it? Mike struggles to make sense of the loose ends he’s encountered. They can’t all be connected … can they?

To compound his problems, Mike starts to realise he still has feelings for Ashley. He thought they’d both moved on. Is there really any way back?

Threat with no escape?

More about the plot

Online shaming is the threat facing one of the characters in No Logical Connection. The problem is becoming frighteningly commonplace in the real world, and is not always prompted by anger or revenge; sometimes it can also be a blackmailer’s tool. Anonymous accusations can be hard enough to fight off even when they’re completely false, but what if there’s a grain of truth in them?

The perpetrators don’t even have to upload their supposed evidence; they can just threaten to. They can say they’re going to allege that you embezzled funds from a charity, or bought and sold illegal pornography. You can deny it all you like, but sadly, a lot of people are likely to believe it. Mud sticks.

Which is why the threat of such blackmail is more prevalent now than it’s ever been; and why it features as one of the themes that kick off No Logical Connection.

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