Peter Guttridge est un auteur qui explore les complexités de la psyché humaine et des normes sociétales. Son écriture se caractérise par une observation acérée et un usage raffiné de la langue, entraînant les lecteurs dans de profondes réflexions sur la vie. À travers ses œuvres, il pose souvent des questions troublantes et incite à la réflexion sur des dilemmes moraux. Son style unique et sa profondeur de perspicacité en font une voix distinctive de la littérature contemporaine.
"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, 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 . . . Jimmy Tingley, once SAS, 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?
"This sparkling debut fires volleys of one-liners . . . Romping good stuff."--"Daily Mail" "An original and highly readable debut for journalist-turned-gumshoe, Nick Madrid. But a word of warning: never let this man house-sit if you value your pets."--Lynne Truss "Made me laugh out loud and wince in sympathy at both the violence and the humiliation meted out to the narrator . . . enormous fun."--Val McDermid Tom Sharpe meets Raymond Chandler in "No Laughing Matter," a humorous and brilliant debut that will keep readers on a knife's edge of suspense until the bittersweet end. When a naked woman flashes past Nick Madrid's hotel window, it's quite a surprise. For Nick's room is on the 14th floor, and the hotel doesn't have an outside elevator. The management is horrified when Cissie Parker lands in the swimming pool--not only is she killed, but she makes a real mess of the shallow end. In Montreal for the Just For Laughs festival, Nick, a journalist who prefers practicing yoga to interviewing the stars, turns gumshoe to answer the question: did she fall or was she pushed? The trail leads first to the mean streets of Edinburgh and then to Los Angeles, where the truth lurks among the dark secrets of Hollywood. Peter Guttridge is the Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at Southampton University and teaches creative writing. Between 1998 and 2002, he was the director of the Brighton Literature Festival. Since 1998, he has been the mystery reviewer for "The Observer," one of Britain's most prestigious Sunday newspapers. He lives in Sussex on the edge of the South Downs National Park.
A bloody death of an actress during a theatre show has DI Gilchrist and DS Heap investigate . . . but was it a bizarre accident or a deliberate attack?During a theatre performance Detective Inspector Sarah Gilchrist is reluctantly attending, blood begins soaking through a curtain startling one actor into falling to his death from the stage. The source of the Elvira Wright, the lead actress, has been bludgeoned by a lead weight used for opening the curtain.Meanwhile former Hollywood actress Nimue Grace is attracting attention from a notorious gangster. When she stumbles across something horrific in the aptly named Butcher's Wood, she interprets it as a vicious message left for her.As Gilchrist and Detective Sergeant Bellamy Heap investigate, they find themselves running in circles. All the actors were disgruntled with the director of the play, Cat Pinter, and the way it was produced, but why would any of them target Elvira? And what is the meaning of the horrible discovery in Butcher's Wood?
Detective Inspector Sarah Gilchrist investigates a murder, an art theft, and a vicar's disappearance that seem to share an occult motive with one another and with other local acts of sacrilege and grave robbing.
After the body of a man is found outside a lido he was fighting to save from closure, suspicion falls on those looking to redevelop the site. Soon after the man overseeing the development dies in suspicious circumstances. Are the deaths connected to the development, or is there another reason behind them? DI Gilchrist and DS Heap investigate.
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?
Avalon theme parks and medieval Excaliburger banquets are the last things journalist Nick Madrid expects to find when he arrives in the West Country at what is supposedly the grave of the legendary King Arthur. But rival Tourism and Heritage marketing men are the least of his worries once he starts to do some digging of his own. For it isn't Arthurian relics but murder victims he uncovers, and Nick begins to wonder if someone is taking their fixation with Camelot to murderous extremes...
A man is impaled. Another is skinned alive. Brighton has been invaded. But this is no mere power struggle between rival mobsters; the motives for the killings stretch back to an explosive 40-year-old secret Brighton's crime king John Hathaway would rather forget.
