About this series
The gripping new thriller in Peter Guttridge's highly acclaimed Brighton series.
The truth will out.
Thriller writer Victor Tempest is dead and his son, the disgraced ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts, is discovering what really happened in the unsolved Brighton Trunk Murder of 1934. At the same time, Detective Sergeant Sarah Gilchrist has a lead that may establish the truth about the Milldean Massacre. If she can stay alive long enough to follow it...
Jimmy Tingley, once Special Air Service, now avenging angel, is in Europe on the trail of the Balkan gangsters who wreaked bloody havoc in Brighton. He's armed for World War III, but is that enough when he's his own most dangerous enemy?
Titles in the series (3)
- City of Dreadful Night
1
"Be prepared for a long night. Guttridge combines period mystery, police procedure and noir in a fascinating tale whose only blemish is that you'll have to wait for the next in the series in its resolution” ― Kirkus Reviews, (Starred Review) The first gripping mystery in the Brighton Trilogy. July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's lost 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...
- Last King of Brighton
2
The new gripping mystery following City of Dreadful Night. A man impaled on the South Downs. Another skinned alive. A skeleton found beneath the West Pier, its feet encased in concrete. Brighton has been invaded. But this is no mere power struggle between rival mobsters; the motives for the killings stretch back through the decades, to an explosive forty-year-old secret Brighton's crime king John Hathaway would rather forget. But someone else remembers, and that someone has decided that revenge is a dish best served cold...
- Thing Itself
3
The gripping new thriller in Peter Guttridge's highly acclaimed Brighton series. The truth will out. Thriller writer Victor Tempest is dead and his son, the disgraced ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts, is discovering what really happened in the unsolved Brighton Trunk Murder of 1934. At the same time, Detective Sergeant Sarah Gilchrist has a lead that may establish the truth about the Milldean Massacre. If she can stay alive long enough to follow it... Jimmy Tingley, once Special Air Service, now avenging angel, is in Europe on the trail of the Balkan gangsters who wreaked bloody havoc in Brighton. He's armed for World War III, but is that enough when he's his own most dangerous enemy?
Peter Guttridge
Peter Guttridge is the author of the acclaimed Brighton Trilogy ― City of Dreadful Night, The Last King of Brighton and The Thing Itself. He has written five further Brighton novels featuring some of the same characters, including The Devil's Moon, Those Who Feel Nothing, Swimming with The Dead, The Lady of The Lake and Butcher's Wood. His novella, The Belgian and The Beekeeper (Kindle Original), set on the Sussex Downs in 1916, is a playful account of an encounter between Sherlock Holmes and a certain celebrated foreign detective. He is also the author of the award-winning Nick Madrid satirical crime series and a nonfiction account of England's Great Train Robbery. His stand-alone thriller, The Boogaloo Twist (formerly titled Paradise Island), set on a barrier isle off Georgia, is an e-book original. His collected short stories, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of/On is now available as an e-book and paperback.
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