
The Rain Over Leeds by Liam Barrantine
At a Glance
- • Focus: A body in a passage off Briggate. A wallet still full. An address in Seacroft hidden in the dead man's coat. Frank Salters has one question — not who killed Daniel Mercer, but who wanted the address found.
- • By: Liam Barrantine, short story, 2026
- • Title: The Rain Over Leeds
- • Form: short story
- • Published by: Tales From A Harrogate Caravan

Chapter One — The November Night
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Chapter Two — Frank Salters
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Chapter Three — The Paper
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Chapter Four — Seacroft
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Chapter Five — The City of Clues
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Chapter Six — Eleven Eighteen
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Chapter Seven — The Missing Hour
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Chapter Eight — The House in Seacroft
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Chapter Nine — The Last Secret
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Chapter Ten — Leeds Before Dawn
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About Liam Barrantine
Liam Barrantine is 56 and lives in North Yorkshire with his family. He holds a degree in criminology and worked for many years as a forensic investigator, an experience which informs the procedural detail and the slow unravelling of evidence in his fiction. He has a particular interest in murder mysteries, the mechanics of a crime, the inconsistencies in witness accounts, the small things that do not fit. The Rain Over Leeds is his first novel.
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