A Hiding to Nothing

by Miles Craven

In late 1999 parts of a dismembered body are found in a bin-bag by a jogger. DS Nick Thomas, who’s assigned the case, feels there is no one he can trust. Meanwhile on one of the roughest council estates in Leeds, teenager Jamie Winn, known simply as J, steals and extorts on behalf of his criminal father, while elder brother Ricky is on the payroll of powerful mobster, William Maloney, whose tentacles reach to the very top of the city’s hierarchy. More a howcatchem than a whodunit or a whydunnit, A Hiding to Nothing is a story of courage and redemption in the face of the gravest danger.

388 pages, Paperback

Published February 27, 2019

About the author

Miles Craven is my penname, an amalgam of the name I was born with (Michael Craven) and the name that replaced it when my mother remarried (Michael Miles). An exiled Yorkshireman living with my family in North Wales, I graduated in Medieval and Modern History at Birmingham University in 1978, where I also completed my PhD in 1982 and in the same year a postgraduate teaching certificate at Wolverhampton University. I have taught in further education colleges and universities for over thirty years, teaching more subjects than I care to remember but specialising in History, English Literature and, most recently, Creative Writing.