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  • Location: Hull

Sorrow Bound (DS McAvoy 3)

Sorrow Bound (DS McAvoy 3)

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2000s: Rules are meant to be broken in Hull as DS McAvoy knows all too well

  • ISBN: 978-1473668843
  • Genre: Biography/memoirs, Crime

What you need to know before your trail

Philippa Longman did what we all aim to do. She did the right thing.

She’s about to pay for it with her life…

DS McAvoy has spent his career playing by the rules. He has the scars to show for it.

And his latest case will take him into a world in which good intentions make no difference to those with a thirst for revenge… Where ruthless killers go to any lengths to get their way… And where the most powerful thing anyone can do is stand firm against the darkness.

Travel Guide

Visit Hull – McAvoys Guide to Hull

Hull Police

Clough Road is the police station where the police in the novel work. Whilst the city has of course changed over the years, the criminality with it, the concrete brick it resembles seems not to have changed though.

Anlaby Road

As McAvoy is sitting in the car at the bottom of this street, he realises that this area of town is know for charity shops and pizza parlours A businessman tried to set up a club here but it lasted a year. The streets are a maze of small terraced houses with front rooms…There is no term in the official police guidelines to describe the locals here.

The crime scene in Walliker street is down this end of the street

The Victoria Dock Estate

Downey lives here in the novel. It’s a spot of Hull worth an explore for it plays a role in the city’s history

The area was bit with London Docklands in mind and marketed as an ‘urban village’ but has ailed to draw the middle classes away from the West Hull Villages. It’s a mixture of hard-working family and dodgy bastards.

Streetview Maps

C) Hull - Walliker Street
D) Hull - Clough Street Police Station

Booktrail Boarding Pass:  Sorrow Bound (DS McAvoy 3)

Destination: Hull  Author/Guide: David Mark Departure Time: 2000s

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