One Night at the Perseverance Hotel: A Standalone Novella

Another town Another murder

Fresh from London, DCI Graham Vertue sets out to track Vicky Thompson’s killer in the grip of a freezing winter in 1980s Northumbria.  

Secrets are a way of life in these parts, not least at the Perseverance Hotel where the victim met an untimely end. He turns to a colleague in the London Met for help, someone he once trusted above all others, only to find his friend is playing by new rules.

Under the radar, right on his doorstep, a plot reaches its zenith.  

Is anyone who they claim to be? Can Vertue catch a killer and scupper a deadly mission.