The Crooked Beat (Joe Geraghty 3)

Author/Guide: Nick Quantrill

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2000s: Who knew there was so much dirty dealings going on around the busy port of Hull?

ISBN: 978-1907565564
Genre: Crime

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What you need to know before your trail

Joe Geraghty is a private investigator if not the more usual kind of PI. He’s had a tough life but his pain drives him on instead of crushing him. So when his brother asks for help with financial problems, Joe is there for him. These problems are a lot deeper than money worries however since they take both brothers down a path into the murky underworld of smuggling and the people his brother has become involved with are not the sort to let you go once you meet them.

Desperate to save his brother, Joe tries to do what he can, but the further he goes, the harder it’s going to be to get back…if at all.

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Hull. A busy port on the east coast of England. A bit non de script even. You certainly would expect to find international and local criminals hanging around, a burden of conspiracies and secret waiting to be discovered?

Around the busy port streets of Hull, there is a dark dark world that is hidden from plain sight but when Niall Geraghty gets involved, he will really wish he had never found it. Solving money problems by smuggling cigarettes was probably not the best idea he’s had but when it goes missing, local tough guy George Sutherland wants answers.

Joe with his PI past is keen to help despite being warned off doing so. Family ties are sometimes hard to break and Joe wants to hang on tight. A troubled family past and his lack of friends and his life in Hull haunts him in more ways than one.

Hull, itself a character in the novel, with its port coming under close scrunity and the underbelly being revealed bit by bit. Sutherland and his men show the hard gritty side to a city which is undergoing regeneration. AS the city is being pulled down and rebuilt, everything is changing and people are finding new ways to adapt. Joe Geraghty in particular has lived his life and had his problems in Hull so is intrinsically tied to its regeneration as if it were him being rebuilt (which maybe it is)

Regeneration in all its forms is about adapting and the city is the perfect backdrop for a crime thriller which is about really getting to the gritty reality of life, escaping the past to build a future.