The Brighton series by Peter Guttridge (2010 - )
The
description of the first book in the series, ‘City of Dreadful Night’, on www.fantasticfiction.com sold it
to me immediately -
First gripping mystery in the Brighton
Trilogy - July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway
station's left luggage office. Her identity is never established, her killer
never caught. But someone is keeping a diary . . . July 2009. Ambitious radio
journalist Kate Simpson hopes to solve the notorious Brighton Trunk Murder, and
she enlists the help of ex-Chief Constable Robert Watts, whose role in the
recent botched armed-police operation in Milldean, Brighton's notorious no-go
area, cost him his job. But it's only a matter of time before past and present
collide . . .
It ticked
all the boxes – based in a real location, inspired by real events and as hard-boiled
as they come.
The
second and third books continue to uncover more secrets about the past and
present of Brighton’s criminal family, the Hathaways.
I have
yet to read the last two in the list below but from the reviews on Amazon etc
they appear to be drifting away from the world created in the first three.
Peter
Guttridge’s Brighton series –
City of
Dreadful Night (2010)
The Last
King of Brighton (2011)
The Thing
Itself (2012)
The
Devil's Moon (2013)
Those Who
Feel Nothing (2014)
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