The new gripping mystery following City of Dreadful Night - A man impaled on the South Downs. Another skinned alive. A skeleton found beneath the West Pier, its feet encased in concrete. Brighton has been invaded. But this is no mere power struggle between rival mobsters; the motives for the killings stretch back through the decades, to an explosive forty-year-old secret Brighton's crime king John Hathaway would rather forget. But someone else remembers - and that someone has decided that revenge is a dish best served cold . . .
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By KAREN
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Although I am an avid reader I have not been compelled to write a review before. I am not going to tell you what this book is all about - I am simply going to tell you to read it. This is an absolutely brilliant book. It is the second in a trilogy so please read City of Dreadful Night first. I found that one a bit of a struggle to start with because there were a lot of quick 'scene changes' but please stick with it - you get plenty of rewards if you do. This is probably the best book that I have ever read, thanks to the story crafting of Peter Guttridge. I am now totally hooked and can not wait for book 3. I was so pleased to hear that some of the surviving characters from this series will live on in a fourth and possibly fifth book. Let's hope this is the start of a long and very entertaining line of novels.
By fpd
Format:Kindle Edition
Had to read this as soon as i finished City of Dreadful Night and it did not disappoint. He continues the exploration of Brightons underbelly through the 60s to present day. A labyrinth of fact and fiction it drags you into a spellbinding story of crime and mystery wrapped up in sadism and psychosis. Not for the fainthearted. Couldn't put it down and now can't wait for the third book in this trilogy to be released
By Tigon Man
Format:Hardcover
As a Brightonian and an avid crime reader I was looking forward to reading Peter Guttridge's tale of generations of gangsters on the South Coast.
However I found the first part of the novel taking in Brighton from the early sixties until 1970 to be too heavily reliant on telling us who the notables of the period were and of much written about non fictional events. So we get a bewildering mix of real life pop stars and crime figures mentioned including Duane Eddy, Pink Floyd, Dusty Springfield, Matt Monro. Crimanals of the period including John McVicar, The Krays and the Great Train Robbers. Mentions of Brighton Rock, The Trunk Murders, films of the period set in Brighton including Oh What a Lovely War and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and so on.
The use of real people and events is popular in current crime fiction, Jake Arnott is another exponent, however it can be overused as in the first of of this novel.
The second half of Last King of Brighton is much more interesting, focusing on the contempory crime scene in Brighton and in particular the rise of criminal gangs in the UK eminating from the Balkans. This battle between the old guard Kings of Brighton criminal fraternity and the frighteningly violent Eastern European invaders is well choreographed and is the novels best feature.
However I found the first part of the novel taking in Brighton from the early sixties until 1970 to be too heavily reliant on telling us who the notables of the period were and of much written about non fictional events. So we get a bewildering mix of real life pop stars and crime figures mentioned including Duane Eddy, Pink Floyd, Dusty Springfield, Matt Monro. Crimanals of the period including John McVicar, The Krays and the Great Train Robbers. Mentions of Brighton Rock, The Trunk Murders, films of the period set in Brighton including Oh What a Lovely War and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and so on.
The use of real people and events is popular in current crime fiction, Jake Arnott is another exponent, however it can be overused as in the first of of this novel.
The second half of Last King of Brighton is much more interesting, focusing on the contempory crime scene in Brighton and in particular the rise of criminal gangs in the UK eminating from the Balkans. This battle between the old guard Kings of Brighton criminal fraternity and the frighteningly violent Eastern European invaders is well choreographed and is the novels best feature.
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