NOVELIST Chris Berry has again combined the worlds of rugby league and crime fiction in his second book, Tough Season in the Sun.

It is his follow-up to Tough Season which was nominated for a Dagger Award from the Crime Writers Association last year and took a few cues from Warrington’s sporting past.

The new novel shifts the action from the north of England to the sunshine of the Canary Islands where central character Greg Duggan now plays for the fictitious Lanzarote Eruption.

Chris, who has previously written autobiographies for Joe Longthorne and Tony Christie, said: “After setting my first book in the sport’s heartland, particularly thinking of old grounds like Wilderspool and the big rugged players that took no prisoners, I wanted to take the reader on a real adventure and somewhere completely different.

“This book is even more explosive than the first and is set out for anyone who really enjoys crime thriller fiction. There are murders, abductions, chases, corruption and plenty of action.

“There are certainly one or two people in the book that I can imagine Warrington readers might think: ‘That’s so-and-so’ or ‘I know who that is’, but I can guarantee they are all characters from out of my head.”