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Dead Pretty

Dead Pretty
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

No. 5 in the DS McAvoy series. Hannah Kelly has been missing for nine months. Ava Delaney has been dead for five days. One girl to find. One girl to avenge. And DS Aector McAvoy won’t let either of...

I Am Dust

I Am Dust
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2005/2019

The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years. But who will...

Broken Dreams

Broken Dreams
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull

Broken Dreams is the first urban thriller from Hull based writer ,Nick Quantrill, featuring private detective Joe Geraghty. Northern gritty realism. A cracking authentic crime thriller Joe Geraghty, Private Investigator, is used to struggling from one case to the...

Maria In The Moon

Maria In The Moon
  • Author(s): Louise Beech
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2007

Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can’t remember everything. She can’t remember her ninth year. She can’t remember when her insomnia started. And she can’t remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past,...

Original Skin

Original Skin
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Simon and Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector McAvoy is a policeman with scars to his body and career. Each is...

Reprisal

Reprisal
  • Author(s): Alfie Robbins
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Some of the most vibrant and varied crime writing around anywhere is centred on the evocative industrial fishing port of Hull, with its shadowy wind-swept streets, its hard-bitten attitudes, its drugs, its gangsters and yet its underlying humanity that...

The Crooked Beat

The Crooked Beat
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s

When Joe Geraghty’s brother finds himself in financial trouble, it’s only natural that he turns to the Private Investigator for help. But when it relates to a missing consignment of smuggled cigarettes, it’s not so easily sorted. Drawn into...

The Dark Winter

The Dark Winter
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Hull, East Yorkshire. Two weeks before Christmas. Three bodies in the morgue. The victims – each a sole survivor of a past tragedy – killed in the manner they once cheated death. Somebody is playing God. And it falls...

The Late Greats

The Late Greats
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Having been convinced by their manager, Kane Major, to put their acrimonious break-up behind them and launch a comeback, New Holland, Hull’s most successful band of the 1990s, is reforming. Allowing one privileged journalist to document the process. Joe...

The Painter

The Painter
  • Author(s): Will Davenport
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1600s, Modern

Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must...

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