Books by Chris Nickson

The Dead on Leave

A march by Mosley and his Blackshirts is held in Leeds. There is considerable violence throughout the march and when it is over the body of a man is discovered. He has been strangled.

Reviewed on 26 January 2019 by Arnold Taylor

The Holywell Dead

When a secretive parish priest is murdered against a background of the return of the plague, the coroner presses John the Carpenter into service yet again to discover why.

Reviewed on 12 May 2018 by John Cleal

Modern Crimes

WPC Lottie Armstrong, one of Leeds’ first women officers, battles prejudice and ignorance and she struggles to find a missing girl and solve a murder.

Reviewed on 14 April 2017 by John Cleal