Peter Guttridge, Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6943-2
In a botched effort to arrest a violent armed robber, police officers under the command of Chief Constable Robert Watts raid the wrong house and gun down four people at the outset of the strong first in British author Guttridge's Brighton trilogy....
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Peter Guttridge. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8009-3
Guttridge's second Brighton mystery falls short of the standard set by its predecessor, City of Dreadful Night (2010), but admirers of the first book still won't want to miss the trilogy's conclusion. After a gory prologue set in the present that...
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Peter Guttridge. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8081-9
Powerful flashback scenes carry Guttridge’s third Brighton crime novel (after 2011’s The Last King of Brighton). The horror of a prologue, in which an unnamed narrator in 1934 matter-of-factly recounts murdering his mistress, turns to pathos as the...
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Peter Guttridge. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8225-7
The occult collides with police procedure in Guttridge’s fragmented, patchwork fourth Brighton mystery (after 2011’s The Thing Itself). A huge wicker man is burning on the Brighton seaside. Performance art? Unfortunately no. There’s a body within...
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Peter Guttridge. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8360-5
Guttridge’s fifth Brighton mystery (after 2013’s The Devil’s Moon) combines a straightforward police procedural, told in third-person omniscient voice, with a nebulous second-person narrative, about a vengeance-obsessed man tracking down the...
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Peter Guttridge. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8933-1
Guttridge’s sprightly sixth Brighton mystery (after 2014’s Those Who Feel Nothing) finds Det. Insp. Sarah Gilchrist ruefully contemplating her “late-onset promiscuity” when she gets a call from Det. Sgt. Bellamy Heap to join him at a crime scene....
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Peter Guttridge. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8967-6
In Guttridge’s sprightly seventh Brighton mystery (after 2019’s Swimming with the Dead), Det. Insp. Sarah Gilchrist and Det. Sgt. Bellamy Heap are dispatched to a lake belonging to Hollywood film star Nimue Grace, where Maj. Richard Rabbitt, a...
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