Thing Itself

by Peter Guttridge

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847514370
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	04/01/2013
Series:	The Brighton Trilogy , #3
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Guttridge’s third Brighton thriller is so well-written that it would be well worth your time even if it were not such a darkly brilliant mystery.”Kirkus Reviews

"This is a serious, gritty novel designed to shock, captivate, and emotionally drain its readers, and it succeeds on all fronts."
Booklist on The Thing Itself

Editorial Reviews

"A darkly brilliant mystery."

Kirkus Reviews

"Designed to shock, captivate, and emotionally drain its readers, it succeeds on all fronts."

Booklist

Designed to shock, captivate, and emotionally drain its readers, it succeeds on all fronts

Booklist

An ice-cold case heats up. Disgraced former Chief Constable Bob Watts has never given up his hope of solving the 1934 Brighton Trunk Murder. Upon the death of his father, well-known author and former police constable Victor Tempest, Watts finds a treasure trove of new information in his papers. Back in the present, DS Sarah Gilchrist, who's still living down the trouble she's been in over the Milldean Massacre that brought Watts down, finds herself in even hotter water for giving an illegal weapon to her friend, reporter Kate Simpson, who uses it to a kill a rapist. And Jimmy Tingley, ex-SAS and friend of Watts, is in Europe on the trail of the Balkan gangsters who've been trying to take over the Brighton crime scene (The Last King of Brighton, 2011, etc). The information his father left Watts, which reaches all the way back to his grandfather's World War I experiences and death, details Tempest's life as a police constable, a member of Oswald Mosley's fascist organization, and a friend of both Ian Fleming and a long string of lawbreakers. It's no secret to Watts that the lives of the constabulary and the criminals of Brighton have long been deeply intertwined, but as he continues to investigate, the information becomes steadily more shocking. Guttridge's third Brighton thriller is so well-written that it would be well worth your time even if it were not such a darkly brilliant mystery.

Kirkus Reviews