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Jake Arnott


UK flag (b.1961)

Jake Arnott left school at sixteen. He has since worked as a labourer, a mortuary technician, a theatrical agent's assistant, an artist's life model, an actor and a sign language interpreter.

During the eighties he lived in various squats in London. In 1989 he moved to Leeds to work for Red Ladder, the radical theatre company. After a national tour with them he began to write, supporting himself on a part time job with Leeds Social Services as resource centre worker.
 

Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction, Historical
 
Series
Long Firm
   1. The Long Firm (1999)
   2. He Kills Coppers (2001)
   3. Truecrime (2003)
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Novels
   Johnny Come Home (2006)
   The Devil's Paintbrush (2009)
   The House of Rumour (2012)
   The Fatal Tree (2017)
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White Riot (2023)
(United Kingdom Trilogy, book 1)
Joe Thomas
"Police and thieves, punks and spycops. White Riot captures the raw energy of the times in spectacular fashion, evoking a visceral narrative of power and corruption."
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High John the Conqueror (2022)
Tariq Goddard
"Deranged police procedural meets darkly comic folk horror in Wild Wild Wessex. Utterly mesmerising."
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If I Tell (2022)
The Interview

(Shaw and Darmody, book 1)
Gill Perdue
"An intense, emotional and utterly compelling narrative that deftly leads us into the dark places of ordinary lives."

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