Peter Guttridge

Peter Guttridge has read far more crime fiction than is healthy for anyone: for eleven years (until 2011) he was the crime fiction critic of the Observer. He is the author of the Brighton trilogy: City of Dreadful Night, The Last King of Brighton and the forthcoming The Thing Itself. He has also written six satirical crime novels featuring the yoga-obsessed Nick Madrid and the hard-bitten but irresistible Bridget Frost. (The series runs from No Laughing Matter to Cast Adrift.) His non-fiction writing includes his definitive account of The Great Train Robbery and a forthcoming history of smuggling. His Kindle Original, The Belgian and the Beekeeper, is the first of three playful novellas featuring Sherlock Holmes and a certain foreign detective.