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I like the immediacy of it. There was never really one defining moment. I was very much encouraged to do well in more traditional areas. But I was always a big reader, moving on to crime novels in my mid-twenties. I was studying for a degree in Criminology with The Open University at the time, so I could see that what I was learning about in theory was being presented in a more engaging way in the crime novel.
The idea that maybe I could give it a go started to nag at me from that point, as I wondered just how hard it could be? I suppose the short answer is that Hull is my home city, so it felt like the natural thing to do. I do want it to be known that I started writing about the place well before it became trendy and all cultured.
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Writing about the city helps me make sense of it, too, which felt important when I started. In fact, I never considered writing about anywhere else.
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Events really are one of the joys of the job. I think all writers have to be open to ideas, so that means you get to legitimately earwig on conversations, be nosy and steal character traits from people you know. Newspapers can be a great source of ideas and can help tease plot ideas out.
Stories are everywhere. Here be the blurb:. I received an email from my publisher, Caffeine Nights, who are based in London, asking what on earth a tenfoot was.
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Within Broken Dreams do you have a favorite scene that focuses on the place? Could you quote a short passage or give an example of how the location figures in your novels? It was.
Derek nodded silent greetings to a few of the men stood around the bar, but no one acknowledged me. The walls were decorated with old black and white photographs of Hull FC from days gone by and photographs of old trawlers. One of the Challenge Cup Final team caught my eye. I recognised all the faces; even knew some of them back in the day. I wondered what they were all doing now. The rivalry between the two Hull clubs is still intense and as a former KR player, I was very much in enemy territory.
The noise had been incredible, the game so much more intense.
Who are your favorite writers, and do you feel that other writers influenced you in your use of the spirit of place in your novels? Ian Rankin is someone I very much admire for that skill and he was definitely the first crime writer I took notice of. Pelecanos does a fantastic job of examining Washington DC from different viewpoints and Lee Child, although British, has covered a huge amount of terrain with his Reacher series.
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The next Geraghty novel, The Late Greats , is about to be submitted to my publisher, and sees him searching Hull for a missing musician who is about to re-launch his successful s band. The aim is to have the city as a less obvious character than in Broken Dreams. Hopefully, the city comes through more in terms of the various characters behaviour and motivations.
I see their lives and the opportunities, whether famous or not, as being shaped by living in the city. To be included in such a prestigious collection is fantastic for both me and Geraghty, so hopefully people will be hearing a lot more from us both.
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You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. As the woman's tangled private life begins to unravel, the trail leads Geraghty to local gangster-turned-respectable businessman, Frank Salford, a man with a significant stake in the city's regeneration plans. Still haunted by the death of his wife in a house fire, it seems the people with the answers Geraghty wants are the police and Salford, both of whom want his co-operation for their own ends.
With everything at stake, some would go to any length to get what they want, Geraghty included.