The town is notable for being the spot where, in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula first landed in England one character works in a ramshackle tourist attraction called Transylvania World.īrodie's work life mostly involves tailing cheaters, whose "bridled passion" isn't very interesting: "Entrapping unfaithful boyfriends and husbands wasn't dealing with criminals, just high-functioning morons."Įarly in the book, Brodie devotes most of his energy to trying to establish a relationship with his disdainful teenage son, Nathan, and mooning after the boy's mother, Brodie's ex-lover Julia. A former soldier and police officer, he is a private investigator now, living quietly (not for long) on a picturesque stretch of the Yorkshire coast near Whitby. After nine years' leave, it's a delight to see Brodie back.
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