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Larkinland

Larkinland
  • Author(s): Jonathan Tulloch
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1950s

Arriving in 1950s Hull, Arthur Merryweather finds himself lodging with the landlady from hell, and falling in love with fellow librarian Niamh O’Leary. But just as their love threatens to bloom, the mystery of Mr Bleaney, the enigmatic insurance...

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...

Syrup Trap City

Syrup Trap City
  • Author(s): Penny Grubb
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in the Northern port of Hull, Syrup Trap City features private investigator, Annie Raymond, her boss, the enigmatic Mrs Peters, and Detective Ayaan Ahmed who Annie last met in very trying circumstances in York (see Buried Deep and...

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,...

The Dead Can’t Talk

The Dead Can’t Talk
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to lat 20thCentury

How far will Anna Stone, a disillusioned police officer on the brink of leaving her job, go to uncover the truth about her sister’s disappearance?Approached by Luke Carver, an ex-Army drifter she’s previously sent to prison, he claims to...

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...

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...

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...

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