Blogs in January 2016

Dead Pretty 26th January 2016

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...

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The Dark Winter 1st January 1970

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...

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Reprisal 1st January 1970

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...

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The Painter 1st January 1970

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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The Late Greats 1st January 1970

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...

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