About ‘Hull Crime Fiction’:
‘Hull Crime Fiction’ is the on-line home of crime writer Nick Quantrill and features novels and short stories set in and around the city of Hull, East Yorkshire. Exploring issues that strike to the very heart of the city, the stories also resonate with a wider audience.

About the Author:
Nick Quantrill has lived in Hull all of his life. Building up a strong catalogue of stories and a keen readership, ‘Punishment’, won the HarperCollins ‘Crime Tour’ short story competition in 2006. Influenced by the idea that crime-fiction is the most effective way of exploring contemporary society, he’s currently hard at work on his second novel.

About Hull:
Kingston upon Hull, or Hull, as it’s more commonly known sits in isolation on the Humber estuary to the north east of England. Hull is perhaps the country’s most derided city; from surveys declaring it as the worst place to live through to polls classing it as the worst place to educate your children, Hull tends to be associated with failure. Undoubtedly, Hull has all the social problems that you’d expect when 250,000 people live together, especially as its major economic industry of fishing has all but disappeared over the last thirty years. It’s also certain that the city’s geographical isolation has led to a hardening of resolve in its residents, and this is manifesting itself in a ‘do it yourself’ approach that is being felt across the city, as it under goes a period of significant regeneration.

About the Photography:
All the photography on this site is featured by kind permission of Roland Standaert. Roland is a Hull-based photographer who has produced a stunning set of black and white studies that both illustrate the stories and explore the city in their own right.

Roland can be contacted at:
photography@hullcrimefiction.co.uk