If you like your crime fiction gritty, realistic and set in familiar places around Greater Manchester, this is the event for you! Join us at Bredbury Library for an evening with David Nolan as he talks about his 'Manc Noir' style crime novels and takes questions from the audience.

In his first crime novel, Black Moss, it is April 1990, and as rioters take over Strangeways prison in Manchester, someone kills a little boy at Black Moss...And no one cares. No one except Danny Johnston, an inexperienced radio reporter trying to make a name for himself.

In The Mermaid's Pool, it's 1988 and ecstasy is flooding the streets of Manchester. Over one weekend, DI John Smithdown is faced with a missing single mum, machete wielding gangs in Oldham, simmering racial tensions across communities and a mutilated body found at the edge of a remote lake with a mythical reputation.

"Dark, brooding, angry - very angry at times. A compelling mystery with a social conscience."

--itsanindiebookblog.com

About the author

David is a multi award-winning author, television producer and crime reporter. He has written a dozen books including Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil, the true story of the largest historic abuse case ever mounted by Greater Manchester Police. He presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary based on the book called The Abuse Trial. It won both the Rose D’Or and the New York International radio awards in 2016. Officers involved in the case helped David with the police procedures featured in Black Moss, particularly the way the system deals with missing children.