Nick and Julie are loving their life together in rural Teesside. The summer and the sex is red hot but an invitation to a party at a local footballer's house changes everything as a dramatic kidnapping throws them into a world of fraud and match-fixing where nothing and no-one is as they seem. Then the shootings begin. As the murders get closer and closer to home, Nick's world is utterly shattered, forcing him to turn from hunted into hunter. When he pursues the killer to the roof of Middlesbrough's tallest building, he knows it's time to go hard or go home.
Teesside Missed is set on Teesside and is the third in the Nick Guymer series of mysteries. It is a novel about love, identity and goalkeeping errors.
As a proud Teessider I love reading books set in the area. John writes in the local dialogue and references familiar locations. Add in 3 great lead characters and a cracking, if slightly incredible! plot and you have a brilliant book.
Back in my hometown world and that of Nick and Julie. (and Jeff of course) Still slightly weird to be reading about places I know so well - which leads me to one gripe: Who, driving from Hardwick to Seaton, goes South on the A19, takes the A66 east and the A178 to Seaton? (and in doing so has to use the Transporter Bridge, of which there is no mention!) Thought you were a local John Nicholson!! Surely North A19, A689 and a right at Owton Lodge, or if you have to go South at least come off the A19 at Portrack!! (irritated me so much I had to look up the A178) Other than that - loved the storyline and twists and turns of the plot.