Bøger af Peter Guttridge

"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...

A theatre actress is killed by a falling lead weight during a play. As DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap make their enquiries they find the cast disgruntled with the director, Cat Pinter, regarding her production and that she has recently disappeared. Where has Cat disappeared to? Was the actress deliberately target and, if so, by whom?

The notoriously difficult landowner Richard Rabbitt is found floating in a lake. Rabbitt had links to shady businessmen in the area, an ex-wife who hated him, and many he was disputing land with including a charismatic former actress. DI Gilchrist and DS Heap must figure out who'd benefit the most from Rabbitt's demise... and who can be trusted?

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, DS Sarah Gilchrist has a lead that may establish the truth about the Milldean Massacre. If she can stay alive long enough to follow it . . .

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 go back through the decades, to a 40-year-old secret Brighton's crime king John Hathaway would rather forget