Accountant's debut novel launched

Nick Quantrill, 35, will be in Waterstones in Scarborough from 1pm to 3pm on Saturday, and in Waterstones, Bradford, on Saturday May 15, from 2pm to 4pm, to sign copies of his crime fiction novel Broken Dreams.

Mr Quantrill, an accountant, won the Harper Collins Crime Tour Short Story prize in 2006, and his novel features many of the characters who have appeared in his earlier work.

Published by Caffeine Nights, the novel is the first to feature the detective Joe Geraghty and is set in Hull's Old Town.

Mr Quantrill said: "Broken Dreams isn't a rose-tinted view of the city but an honest examination of an area which has been abandoned by successive governments." In November, Caffeine Nights publish a novel by Martin Goodman, Professor of creative writing at Hull University. Look Who's Watching is written under the pseudonym Martin O'Neil.

And in February, another Hull-born author, Russ Litten, 41, will have his debut novel, Scream If You Want To Go Faster, published by William Heinemann.