Well, it’s happened.

A Copper’s Eye: Tom Harper’s Leeds 1890-1920 exhibition has opened in the Family and History Library at Leeds Central Library, available to enjoy whenever the library is open.

I spent for days last week hanging it, and much of the week before that gluing pictures and the posters to the foam boards to go on the wall.

It’s been stressful, no doubt about that, and the biggest thing I’ve ever done, definitely stretching me – which may or may not be a good thing. The jury’s still out on that one.

From conception to opening has taken about two months. A blink of an eye, although it feels like so much longer. But I’m hugely honoured that someone wants to give space to Tom and Annabelle and the series that the Morning Star said will “stand for some time as one of the monuments of historical crime fiction.”

More than that, it’s a celebration of the city I love, that raised me.

Have a very quick look around.

Next Monday will see an event as part of it all, with micro-talks, special music, an actor, and more.

This labour of love is wonderful, it’s cemented the Harpers firmly into Leeds history.

But this is the very last exhibition I will ever do.

Meanwhile, please don’t forget this…