Product Description

A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets and drug gangs in Battersea, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun. Now, instead of hunting down knife-wielding muggers, he's chasing runaway bullocks, holding up the Last Night of the Proms traffic to escort a lost mole across the road and combing the countryside for the villains who stole the Colonel's balls. Mike's first year on his new patch is told in seventeen chapters which interweave his escapades on the beat month by month together with his growing knowledge of a landscape that changes with the seasons and some snapshots from his off-duty life. Here is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of North Yorkshire, its breathtaking scenery and wide variety of characters and communities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1892 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Mike Pannett is Yorkshire born and bred but on joining the police force moved down to London for a spell. By 1997 he had exhausted his batteries and moved back home, where he became a rural beat officer for 10 years. In 2007 he resigned from the police force to set up his own business, Twiggy's Play Ltd, which provides entertainment centres for children under 12. Located in several North Yorkshire market towns, the theme of Twiggy's Play is the Yorkshire countryside and its animals. Mike lives with his family in a village outside York.

Customer Reviews

Spot on!
Being married to a Yorkshire city/rural Bobby for over 30 years I just couldn't resist this, and I wasn't disappointed. It brought back wonderful memories. He's just so spot on! Who wants misery rubbish publishers keep pushing at us? This book made me smile and left me feeling good to be alive. More please.

Could not put this down!
I had a hunch when this book arrived through the letterbox that I would enjoy it, and I was not disappointed! It was enjoyable on so many levels. As well as immersing you in the world of a northern bobby it paints a wonderful portrait of the part of the Yorkshire I love and in which I grew up. At times touching, gripping and hilarious, Mike Pannett truly is a modern day James Herriott. I haven't enjoyed a book so much since I was a boy.

Lovely book, marred by one thing
I too read the extracts in the Daily Mail, and thought it would be a good book to get. I read it quite quickly, thoroughly enjoying it. A real feelgood read.

What was wrong, then? Well, Mike is a Yorkshireman and obviously doesn't want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. So he left the book effectively unfinished, with a cliffhanger - not what you expect from a book such as this. Ironically, the vagaries of binding left eight blank pages at the end, which added insult to injury. No doubt Mike will bring out another book and be laughing all the way to the bank.