Author - Robert Edric

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Waterstones in Hull are extremely supportive of Hull & East Riding writers, and carry a stock of many of the books mentioned on this site.

Robert Edrich (real name Gary Armitage) is a Sheffield-born writer who went to Hull University and lives in Hornsea.

His "Book of the Heathen" was shortlisted for the WH Smith Literary Award in 2001, and his novel "Peacetime" was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002.

The three novels below comprise his crime trilogy based in Hull.

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"The standard of writing here is a cut above the standard detective novel, but Mr Edric doesn't overcomplicate an excellent PI/police procedural, set in Hull.

Leo Rivers, the PI is a low key and realistic creation, not the stereotypical Marlowe figure transported to Yorkshire. The police and the criminals are subtly divided in character, not "white hats and black hats"."

Robert Edric's other books are:

Winter Garden (1985)
New Ice Age (1986)
A Lunar Eclipse (1989)
In the Days of the American Museum (1990)
The Broken Lands (1992)
Hallowed Ground (1993)
The Earth Made of Glass (1994)
Elysium (1995)
In Desolate Heaven (1997)
The Sword Cabinet (1999)
The Book of the Heathen (2000)
Peacetime (2002)
The Mermaids (2006)
Gathering the Water (2006)
The Kingdom of Ashes (2007)
In Zodiac Light (2008)

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"The second stunning literary crime novel in the Song Cycle trilogy from the acclaimed author of Booker-longlisted PEACETIME, and THE BOOK OF THE HEATHEN.

In the second volume of the Song Cycle trilogy, Hull private Investigator Leo Rivers is approached by the mother of a girl who disappeared a year earlier in violent and mysterious circumstances."

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Hull, autumn 2005 and private investigator Leo Rivers, finds himself at the overheated heart of an inquiry into the savage killing of several young women. Approached by the mother of the chief suspect, he soon discovers not only that this suspect is not involved in the killings, but that several hitherto unconsidered and scarcely credible connections link the murders to a single perpetrator.