Chris Nickson. Mystery (IPG, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-0-7524-9917-8
In the year 1360, John, an itinerant carpenter and the hero of Nickson’s promising new historical series, arrives in Chesterfield, where he finds steady work helping to construct a church spire. When John discovers the body of his supervisor, master
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8786-3
Set in Leeds, England, in 1897, Nickson’s so-so sixth Tom Harper mystery (after 2017’s On Copper Street) lacks his usual superior plotting. Tom, a police superintendent, is proud that his wife, Annabelle, has joined with six other women to run for...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8753-5
Set in 1736 Leeds, Nickson’s superior seventh Richard Nottingham novel (after 2013’s Fair and Tender Ladies) finds the retired constable in a somber mood on a visit to the graves of his wife and older daughter. Richard’s spirits revive when the...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8696-5
In Nickson’s crackerjack fifth police procedural set in late-19th-century Leeds (after 2016’s The Iron Water), Det. Insp. Tom Harper takes charge of two cases: the death of a man who has just been released from prison, and a horrific acid attack on...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8643-9
At the outset of British author Nickson’s gritty fourth whodunit set in late 19th-century Leeds (after 2015’s Skin like Silver), the trial run of an experimental torpedo in Waterloo Lake cuts the rope tying the corpse of a man to a weight, causing...
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Chris Nickson. History/Mystery (IPG, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-7509-6485-2
Sympathetic characters, a puzzling mystery, and plausible historical detail distinguish British author Nickson’s second novel featuring John the Carpenter (after 2014’s The Crooked Spire), set in Chesterfield, England, in 1361. John is looking...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8570-8
Gun violence and the ambiguities of justice add a topical edge to British author Nickson’s solid third Tom Harper police procedural (after 2015’s Two Bronze Pennies), set in Leeds in 1891. Shortly after the police discover a dead infant who was...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8491-6
Set in 1890, Nickson’s second Insp. Tom Harper novel (after 2014’s Gods of Gold) falls several notches below his best work, notably his 18th-century Richard Nottingham series (Fair and Tender Ladies, etc.). A newly and happily married Harper, who...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8428-2
A gas workers’ strike cripples Leeds in Nickson’s strong first in a new Victorian series. As the police prepare to cope with the controversial arrival of nonunion replacement workers, Insp. Tom Harper learns that eight-year-old Martha Parkinson is...
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Chris Nickson, Author . St. Martin's/Griffin $11.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-33735-3
Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton, better known as OutKast's Andre 3000 and Big Boi, have earned themselves a large and devoted audience with their quirky, well-crafted hip-hop. Each of their six albums has gone platinum, and they began 2004...
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Chris Nickson. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-055-3
Effective portrayals of brutality and genuine emotion and loss distinguish Nickson’s well-crafted sixth Richard Nottingham novel (after 2013’s At the Dying of the Year). In 1734, Nottingham, Constable of the City of Leeds, carries out his duties...
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Chris Nickson. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-042-3
British author Nickson’s stellar fifth 18th-century whodunit finds Richard Nottingham, Constable of the City of Leeds, returned to work after the life-threatening wound he received in the previous book, 2012’s Come the Fear. Nottingham worries that...
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Chris Nickson. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-030-0
Set in 1733 Leeds, Nickson's outstanding fourth mystery featuring constable Richard Nottingham (after 2012's The Constant Lovers) shows that linking the crime under investigation to a wider plot of broader significance isn't necessary to carry the...
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Chris Nickson. Severn/Crème de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-518-3
In Nickson’s excellent third 18th-century historical featuring Leeds constable Richard Nottingham (after 2011’s Cold Cruel Winter), Nottingham looks into the fatal stabbing of an unknown young woman found in a ruined abbey outside town. The victim...
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Chris Nickson. Severn/Crème de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-005-8
Set in 1732, Nickson’s superb follow-up to 2010’s The Broken Token finds Richard Nottingham, constable of the city of Leeds, fearful that he will lose more loved ones after his older daughter falls ill and dies. An especially hard winter is making...
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Chris Nickson, Author St. Martin's Griffin $11.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-19512-0
Pop vocalist Mariah Carey may be only 27, but in her young career she has already emerged as the biggest-selling female singer of the decade. In this insubstantial biography, celebrity chronicler Chris Nickson (Mariah Carey, Her Story, Vol. I)...
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Chris Nickson, Author St. Martin's Griffin $10.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-13607-9
Perhaps Soundgarden unnerved the competition with two heavy-hitting albums in a row (Badmotorfinger, Superunknown), but to declare them the reigning kings of any dominion, as Nickson does all too easily, dismisses the ``grunge''/``alternative''...
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Chris Nickson, Crème de la Crime, $15.95 paper (269p) ISBN 978-0-9560566-1-0
Music journalist Nickson (The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to World Music) makes an impressive mystery debut, set in 1731 Leeds. Early one morning, constable Richard Nottingham’s trusted deputy, John Sedgwick, bangs on his door to announce a double...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8831-0
Nickson (The Tin God) movingly depicts the plight of the lower classes in 1820 Leeds—and upper-class indifference to them—in this solid series launch. At age 30, Simon Westow, an orphan who grew up in a workhouse, has created a comfortable life for...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8879-2
Nickson’s superlative seventh whodunit featuring Leeds police superintendent Tom Harper (after 2018’s The Tin God) effortlessly blends an intriguing mystery with a portrait of the plight of the lower classes in that city in 1899. Insp. Billy Reed is
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8935-5
Set in 1822 Leeds, British author Nickson’s outstanding sequel to 2019’s The Hanging Psalm finds thief-taker Simon Westow helping Emily Ashton and her brother, Davey Ashton, who rescued Simon from the streets in the previous book. When Davey is...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8976-8
Set in 1908, Nickson’s superior eighth mystery featuring Supt. Tom Harper (after 2019’s The Leaden Heart) finds Harper preparing to provide protection for Prime Minister Herbert Asquith on his forthcoming visit to Leeds—and dealing with a cold case.
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9245-4
The murder of career criminal Laurence Poole propels Nickson’s superior third Simon Westow mystery (after 2020’s The Hocus Girl), set in 1823 Leeds, England. A few weeks earlier, Sir Matthew Fullbrook hired Westow to retrieve his family’s stolen...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9088-7
The return of Davey Mullen, a notorious thug believed to have killed at least six people in New York, to Leeds, England, his birthplace, drives Nickson’s solid ninth Tom Harper mystery (after 2020’s The Molten City). In 1913, Harper is adjusting to...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5048-5
Set in Leeds, England, in 1823, Nickson’s stellar fourth mystery featuring thief-taker Simon Westlow (after 2020’s To the Dark) finds Simon, who’s recuperating from a devastating illness, not in the best shape to embark on a crusade. But he does so...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5047-8
Nickson plausibly and effectively ages his characters in his superior 10th mystery featuring Leeds copper Tom Harper (after 2021’s Brass Lives). Harper’s first outing was set in 1890, when the policeman was just a detective inspector, but by this...
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Chris Nickson. Severn, $30.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1019-7
It’s 1824 in Nickson’s excellent fifth whodunit featuring Leeds, England, thief-taker Simon Westow (after 2021’s The Blood Covenant), and Simon continues to make a solid living by retrieving stolen goods for a fee. Simon gets more than he bargained...
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Chris Nickson. Severn House, $31.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1179-8
Leeds constable Tom Harper tackles a trio of cases on the eve of his 1920 retirement in Nickson’s standout 11th historical whodunit featuring the investigator (after 2022’s A Dark Steel Death). Alderman Thompson, who helped secure Harper’s position...
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Chris Nickson. Severn House, $29.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1445-4
Nickson (the Simon Westow mysteries) delivers a sturdy historical series launch set in his native Leeds. In 1941, Leeds copper Cathy Marsden has just been transferred to the police force’s Special Investigation Branch, which is dedicated to...
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