Richard Nottingham series by Chris Nickson

The Author

I’m a novelist and music journalist, the author of many books set between the 1730s and 1950s in Leeds, as well as others in medieval Chesterfield and 1980s Seattle.

Above all, though, its Leeds I love, the people, the sense of the place changing with time. Yes, I write mysteries, but ultmiateoly they’re books about people and their relationships, and the crime becomes a moral framework for the story.

The Books

Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical

Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, in 1730s England:

Richard Nottingham is The Constable of Leeds, the year is 1731.

There’s a lot on this mans plate right now, apart from the never ending thieving, and drunken brawling, the officials have been on his back to find and arrest a “cut purse”, a cunning and successful thief who had relieved many a gent of his money filled purse. Then came the first of the murders!

The books in suggested reading order

The Broken Token
Cold Cruel Winter
The Constant Lovers
Come the Fear
Convalescence
At the Dying of the Year
Fair and Tender Ladies