David Peace - Böcker

December 1974, Yorkshire. Eddie Dunford får jobb som kriminalreporter på Yorkshire Post. Hans första uppdrag är att rapportera om det brutala mordet på tioåriga Claire Kemplay. Samtidigt försöker han hantera förlusten av sin nyss bortgångne far. E...

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»David Peace är en säregen röst och en stor begåvning. För mig framstår Yorkshirekvartetten som någonting av det mest fascinerande som skrivits inom kriminalgenren på mycket länge. Och 1983 blir på ett sätt den naturliga höjdpunkten.« | KRISTIAN L...

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Vintern 1980. The Yorkshire Ripper har just skördat sitt trettonde offer. Tretton till mördaren, noll till polisen. När allmänhetens ilska växer skickas assisterande polischef Peter Hunter för att ta över utredningen. Skjutningarna i Strafford har...

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Leeds. Söndagen den 29 maj 1977. Det händer igen Det är försommar, och hela stan är förväntansfull inför silverjubileet av drottning Elisabeths regeringstid. Men kriminalinspektör Bob Fraser och Jack Whitehead, som är reporter på The Post, har ann...

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If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the Red Riding Quartet, is one long nightmare. Its heroes - the ...

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'Brilliant.' New York Times 'Remarkable.' Irish Times August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Ze...

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'A powerful, stirring read.' The Times 'Typically brilliant . I loved it.' Adrian McKinty 'The most stone-cold crime novel of 2021.' CrimeReads Tokyo, July 1949. President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing. American D...

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The second book in the acclaimed Tokyo Trilogy, from the author of GB84 and The Damned Utd. Tokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and ...

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Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ai...

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Red Riding Nineteen Eighty is set against an evolving backdrop of power, corruption and lies. The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised. Assistant Chief...

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Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Piggott - who's as...

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From the author of the highly acclaimed Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City --an elecrifying, mesmerizing new novel about a high-profile crime that occurrs in Tokyo during the occupation and goes cold, haunting the lives of both American and Japanes...

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It's August 1946—one year after the Japanese surrender—and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police—irreverent, angry, despairing—goes on the hunt for a killer known as the...

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A fierce, exquisitely dark novel that plunges us into post–World War II Occupied Japan in a Rashomon-like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime.On Jan...

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In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace—acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero—weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Ja...

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an atypical story of two children who under terrifying stress change their lives and the world around them and eventually the galaxy

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fast paced book based on the new fire series with new players included in the action, and romance for Ginny.

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a wildly adventurous novel with love romance and epic battles in a furturistic setting with survival tips for the adventurous person.

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Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the countrys most successful, and most reviled, football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he fa...

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A novel about one of history's great unsolved mysteries, by one of Britain's most original writers. 'Typically brilliant ... A murder mystery set in 1949 Japan during the US occupation it has all of Peace's usual flair for lang...

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One of Mike Atherton's 'Top Ten Best Sports Books' in The TimesIn 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision: he accepted the Leeds United manager's job. As successor to Don Revie...

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'Brilliant.' New York Times'Remarkable.' Irish TimesAugust 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero...

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'Extraordinary.' New York Times'Savagely beautiful.' The TimesTokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is...

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Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain. Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civ...

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In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had b...

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In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had b...

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Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain. Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in ...

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The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupati...

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