City of Dreadful Night
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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...
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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.
