Dead Pretty (DS McAvoy 5)

Travel Guide

The McAvoy Guide to East Yorkshire and Hull

Great Givendale

McAvoy and Roisin are walking here at the start of the novel.It’s a quiet place and they have it to themselves, It has a timeless quality they think and if they were transported to another time, the view would remain unchanged.

It’s this place where they could possibly find the victim the police have been searching for months

Have a  drive down to Millingon (via Grimthorpe Hill, it’s the fastest way from the middle of nowhere to the back of beyond according to Mavoy) and visit the GAit Inn where Roisin remembers she was rude to the landlord. Then there’s Pocklington

Pocklington

The forest here marks the point at which the road from Hull to York stretches and where East Yorkshire becomes North Yorkshire and the house prices start to rise.

Or why not try Market Weighton? It’s where the driver David Hogg lives and it’s a nice little village too

Hull Old Town

The sky is darkening over Hull’s Over Town. Blue lights, florescent coasts and flickering tape are strobing and spinning at the entrance to Bowlalley Lane. This is the part of Hull that has barely changed in centuries. It’s all hight buildings, old brick, and cobbles like freshly baked loaves

The forensics vans arrive here in the novel just off the passageway that leads to the centuries old drinking den Ye Old White Harte. Might be worth a visit?

Weather in Hull

First time one of the characters came to Hull, it had seven different skies and if you stand on the Humber bridge apparently, you need a glove on one hand and suncream on the other.