Come the Fear

By Chris Nickson

With the discovery of a young woman’s charred and blackened body, Richard Nottingham tackles his most disturbing case yet March, 1733. Fire rages through an empty house in a rundown area of Leeds, but the investigation takes a disturbing turn with the discovery of the charred remains of a young woman and her baby amidst the smouldering ruins. Was the fire deliberately started to conceal the woman’s murder? Richard Nottingham’s enquiries into the victim’s identity will lead him from squalid alehouses, prostitutes’ haunts and thieves’ dens to the home of a wealthy wool merchant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers
• Release date: Dec 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781780103259

Chris Nickson

Chris Nickson is a popular crime novelist and music journalist whose fiction has been named best of the year by Library Journal. Specializing in historical crime, Chris is the author of the Richard Nottingham series for Severn House, as well as four series set in Leeds and the John the Carpenter series, set in medieval Chesterfield. A well-known music journalist, he has written a number of celebrity biographies as well as being a frequent contributor to numerous music magazines. He lives in Leeds.