Friday, 2 December 2016

Book(s) You May Have Missed (#6)

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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