Living the Dream with Tale of City's Dark Side ; Behind the Headlines Accountant by Day and Crime Writer by Night, Nick Quantrill has Published His First Book. Allison Coggan Finds Out More About His Detective Story Rooted in Hull

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THERE'S a sense of anticipation, waiting for the man billed as the next big thing in crime fiction to walk into the quayside cafe.

The image of a shady, unkempt character with a tortured soul is shattered when Nick Quantrill, author of Broken Dreams and creator of private investigator Joe Geraghty, arrives, businesslike in his smart dark suit.

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Living the Dream with Tale of City's Dark Side ; Behind the Headlines Accountant by Day and Crime Writer by Night, Nick Quantrill has Published His First Book. Allison Coggan Finds Out More About His Detective Story Rooted in Hull

By day, Nick Quantrill earns his crust as an auditor with a Hull firm of accountants. It's only after dark that the man touted as Hull's answer to crime fiction writer Ian Rankin gets lost in his imagination.

"I'd love to be a full-time crime writer, bu...

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