The Northern Mills

The industrial north, 1928

The mills are running. The workers are not talking. A man is dead — and the official account is an accident, which is what the official account always is when the alternative is inconvenient.

Nathaniel Grey arrives in a town that does not want him there. The case is about a death. It is also about who owns the machinery, who depends on it, and who is willing to kill to keep it turning.

Class, capital, and silence

The Northern Mills takes Grey out of the drawing rooms of southern England and into the industrial north — a world of different power structures, different loyalties, and a different kind of violence.

The third novel in The Detective Nathaniel Grey Mysteries. The investigation is local. The implications are not.

The Detective Nathaniel Grey Mysteries

The Detective Nathaniel Grey Mysteries is a ten-volume series set in interwar England, forming the first era of The Grey Archives universe. Available now from Guy Taylor Fiction.