Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Dark taboos and chilling tattoos create a scene of painful pleasure in Hull
Original Skin
What you need to know before your trail
Simon Appleyard and Suzie Devlin are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Their lust for life is matched only by their hunger for taboo pleasures – a lifestyle that has just made them the deadliest enemy imaginable.
DS Aector McAvoy has been a marked man all his life. A policeman with scars to his body and career, his fate will become linked with that of Simon and Suzie as painfully and intricately as tattooed markings on virgin skin.
Travel Guide
McAvoys Mini Guide to Hull: Visit Hull
Hull’s Old Town
The old town features in the novel with its blades or a rain , scything down from a pewter sky”.
“A narrow row of handsome old mercantile palaces. Of insurance brokers and solicitors, art galleries and museums.”
The Football factor
Football fields which “sew together the villages of Willerby and Anlaby” are a new location in the novel They show a different side to Hull and an area where people hoping for a more peaceful life out of the city aspire to.
The Humber Bridge
On sunny days a roads lead to the Country Park Inn. It sits no more than a few hundred yards from where the Humber Bridge stitches Yorkshire to Lincolnshire and offer the best view in the country of the towering road and its metal harp strings.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Original Skin ( DS McAvoy 2 )
Destination: Hull Author/Guide: David Mark Departure Time: 2000s
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