Thing Itself
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Publisher Description
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?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 killer recalls his experiences in the trenches of WWI. The present finds series protagonist Bob Watts, recently relieved of his duties as chief constable, reviewing papers left behind by his late father, famed thriller writer Victor Temple, concerning the notorious real-life Brighton Trunk Murders. Temple's theory about the gruesome 1930s-era dismemberments, which may reveal the identity of the opening section's narrator, also involves a fascinating account of the prewar British fascist movement. Meanwhile, Watts's former colleague, Det. Sgt. Sarah Gilchrist, probes the cause of his dismissal, a botched police raid that left four innocents dead. If these modern-day scenes are less memorable by comparison, Guttridge manages to end on a satisfying note with his concluding revelations about Watts's family history.
