Beautiful North. Human darkness. One unexplained thread.
Some things sleep,
but they never forget.
Ell Whitt has learned to watch back.
Meet
Ell Whitt
Intelligent. Abrasive.
Funny. Flawed.
A private investigator who notices what other people edit out.
She understands people. Records. Lies. Patterns.
And sometimes something else arrives first.
Meet Ell →Not everything is explained. Not everything should be.Lancashire
The light
changes first.
Low cloud over Pendle Hill. Rain on the Ribble Valley roads. Stone villages holding their shape against the weather.
Ell's world
Monks Cottage
Old stone. Modern life. Too many books. A German Shepherd called Jerry Lee. And things Ell has never quite decided whether she believes in.
The crimes
People,
not monsters.
Secrets. Memory. Shame. Power. The compromises that become habits, and what happens when something buried refuses to stay buried.
Book One · Coming Soon
PENDLE
An Ell Whitt Novel
PENDLE introduces private investigator Ell Whitt and the contemporary Lancashire world of John Cire.
The series
Ell Whitt Novels
PENDLE
An Ell Whitt Novel
The first Ell Whitt novel.Not the last.
The author
John Cire
Contemporary British crime fiction, rooted in the landscapes, people and old stories of the North.
About John →The Pendle Files
Some stories begin
before the first page.
Publication news, field notes from Lancashire, and occasional things that should probably have stayed in the archive.
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