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BIOGRAPHY: Nick Quantrill
Nick
Quantrill was born and raised in Hull, an isolated industrial city in
East Yorkshire. From a young age, Nick has always had a fascination with
crime novels, starting young by annoying the local librarians for
Famous Five novels.
Never realising he could be a writer, Nick spent most of his twenties shouting and bawling his way around the Sunday League football pitches of the city, learning the hard way and meeting an impressive array of characters. With a handful of trophies and permanently damaged ankles to show for his troubles, football was swapped for education, spending the next six years studying of a degree in Social Policy. Approaching now or never time, Nick started writing crime stories set in and around his home city. Instead of just throwing them in a drawer and not letting anyone read them, the stories were made available for free on the Internet, and after winning the HarperCollins ‘Crime Tour’ short story competition in 2006, he started to build a readership. Fast forward a couple of years and after much hard work, a few false starts and countless short stories, Nick completed ‘Broken Dreams.’ Focusing on Hull’s past and future; the novel looks at the death of the city’s fishing industry and explores the problem of how the city can build a new future for itself. ‘Broken Dreams’ also introduces us to Nick’s lead character; rugby league player turned Private Investigator, Joe Geraghty, co-owner of a small detective agency. Nick’s stories are both entertaining and thought provoking, and although the settings may be local to him, the ideas and issues resonate on a much wider basis. When not writing fiction, Nick contributes reviews and essays to a variety of football and music websites. He lives in Hull with his wife, cat and the constant fear Hull City AFC will let him down. |
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The Late Greats
Having been convinced by their manager,
Kane Major, to put their acrimonious break-up behind them and launch a
comeback, New Holland, Hull’s most successful band of the 1990s, is
reforming. Allowing one privileged journalist to document the process.
Joe Geraghty is employed to act as a liaison between the different camps. What appears to be a straightforward assignment sees him neck deep in trouble when singer, Greg Tasker, disappears leaving behind a trail of people who wanted him out of their lives. Geraghty has to choose sides and the investigation penetrates deeper into the city. As the rich and famous rub shoulders with the poor and vulnerable, the stakes increase. Forced to keep his friends close but his enemies’ closer still, the case could see Joe Geraghty lose everything. Click here to download a free sample Reviews “An unputdownable read by one of Hull’s own greatest. Joe Geraghty belongs up there with the best in the genre.” Sheila Quigley author of “Thorn In My Side”. “Great read, with pace, style and a good helping of northern grit. It is noir with salt in the air." Neil White author of “Cold Kill”. “A cold blast of fresh northern air. Nick Quantrill’s conflicted hero is as gritty and downtrodden as his home town.” Howard Linskey author of “The Drop” "Joe Geraghty is a wonderfully flawed hero and cements Nick Quantrill's position as Yorkshire's number one crime writer." Russ Litten author of “Scream If You Want To Go Faster” The Late Greats - A New Joe Geraghy novel. Coming March 19 2012 |
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Broken Dreams
Joe
Geraghty, Private Investigator, is used to struggling from one case to
the next, barely making the rent on his small office in the Old Town of
Hull. Invited by a local businessman to investigate a member of his
staff’s absenteeism, it’s the kind of surveillance work that Geraghty
and his small team have performed countless times. When Jennifer Murdoch
is found bleeding to death, Geraghty quickly finds himself trapped in
the middle of a police investigation which stretches back to the days
when the city had a thriving fishing industry.
As the woman’s tangled private life begins to unravel, the trail leads Geraghty to local gangster-turned-respectable businessman, Frank Salford, a man with a significant stake in the city’s regeneration plans. Still haunted by the death of his wife in a house fire, it seems the people with the answers Geraghty wants are the police and Salford, both of whom want his co-operation for their own ends. With everything at stake, some would go to any length to get what they want, Geraghty included. Paperback, RRP £8.99 eBook, from £2.19 Broken Dreams – ISBN 978-0-9554070-2-4, paperback Broken Dreams - ISBN 978-0-9554070-3-1, eBook http://www.hullcrimefiction.co.uk |
Free Broken Dreams eBook sample download
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Interview with Nick on BBC Radio Humberside |
BBC Radio Humberside interview with Nick Quantrill and Richard Sutherland
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BBC Radio Humberside interview
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Broken Dreams - Chapter 1 Audio Book |
Watch Nick talking about Broken Dreams |
Buy from Amazon - Paperback £8.99/$14.95 and Kindle editions £2.19/$2.99
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