THE TEESSIDE THRILLERS BOOKS 1–5: five gritty British crime thrillers

by Peter Taylor

1070 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 10, 2026

About the author

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor was a U.S. author and writer. Considered to be one of the finest American short story writers, Taylor's fictional milieu is the urban South. His characters, usually middle or upper class people, often are living in a time of change and struggle to discover and define their roles in society.
Peter Taylor also wrote three novels, including A Summons to Memphis in 1986, for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and In the Tennessee Country in 1994. His collection The Old Forest and Other Stories (1985) won the PEN/Faulkner Award. Taylor taught literature and writing at Kenyon and the University of Virginia.

Reviews

[Sheila Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

A new look at home

I enjoy police thrillers and these 5 books each with a different story to tell each with victims and villains the author painted a good picture of Middlesbrough and surrounding areas. The story's are shocking an underworld that everyday people rarely see. The last story of the soldiers there was also a barracks on Stockton road I used to play with a girl who was stationed there her father a soldier, thank you P.T. I've enjoyed these books and the memories that could fit anywhere in this country