Nick's Blues - Softcover

Four days after Nick Harman's seventh birthday, his father climbed onto a bridge high above four lanes of traffic, paused, then threw himself to his death on the road below. Nine years later, Nick lives with his mother on a tough housing estate in North London. On his sixteenth birthday, his mother gives him a box of things left by his father all those years ago. The contents lead Nick to try and discover what led his father from being a successful blues singer to the point where he took his own life. Against a background of shifting allegiances involving the violent gangs on the estate and Nick's first serious involvement with a girl, he is forced to come to terms not only with who his father was, but who he is himself.

John Harvey has written many books of crime fiction and won the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing.