“Aberystwyth Mon Amour” by Malcolm Pryce (2001)

“Let’s be clear about it then: Aberystwyth in the Eighties was no Babylon.”

And it’s back to Wales, though inexplicably I’ve still never been there in the real world.

It’s the eighties in Aberystwyth, and schoolboys are disappearing. When Louie Knight, the only private investigator in town, is hired by Myfanwy Montez, a local dancer at an adult establishment, he finds himself refusing the case, but somehow wrapped up in it anyway. There are rumours all over the town about what’s going on, and no...