RUSH OF BLOOD by Mark Billingham

RUSH OF BLOOD Mark Billingham (www.markbillingham.com) Little, Brown Book Group (www.littlebrown.co.uk) £16.99 Released: 2nd August 2012 Six Brits – three couples – meet at the pool of a Florida Keys resort while on holiday, and become friendly over the course of the two-week holiday. On their last day, a child goes missing – a fourteen-year-old […]

COLD HANDS by John J. Niven

COLD HANDS John J. Niven William Heinemann (http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/…/william-heinemann) £12.99 Released: 2nd August 2012 Donnie Miller has it all: beautiful wife and son, perfect home in the wilds of Saskatchewan and the sort of comfort that comes from having a rich father-in-law who is generous to a fault with his daughter and grandson. It’s a far […]

THE BUFFALO HUNTER by Peter Straub

THE BUFFALO HUNTER Peter Straub (www.peterstraub.net) Cemetery Dance Publications (www.cemeterydance.com) $19.99 Released: Late 2012 From the moment thirty-five-year-old Bobby Bunting lies back on his bed with a paperback Western and a baby’s bottle full of vodka, it’s clear that we’re in the presence of a very odd individual. A Midwesterner living in New York, working […]

LOW TOWN: THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE by Daniel Polansky

THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE (LOW TOWN 1) Daniel Polansky (www.danielpolansky.com) Hodder (hodder.co.uk) £7.99 Warden is a drug dealer and hard man on the streets of Low Town. Ex-soldier, ex-lawman, it is only his past that keeps him above suspicion when he stumbles upon the body of a young girl. When a second body is found, […]

An Interview with CHRIS MORGAN JONES

Photograph © Alexander James Name: CHRIS MORGAN JONES Author of: AN AGENT OF DECEIT (2011) On the web: http://www.chrismorganjones.com On Twitter: @chrismjauthor Chris Morgan Jones’ first novel, An Agent of Deceit, was published in 2011 to widespread critical acclaim, with many outlets comparing his work to that of John Le Carré. Before setting pen to […]

AN AGENT OF DECEIT by Chris Morgan Jones

AN AGENT OF DECEIT Chris Morgan Jones (www.chrismorganjones.com) Pan Books (www.panmacmillan.com) £7.99 There seems to be cyclic nature to the popularity of certain, seemingly long-dead, genres. In recent years we have seen upsurges in the popularity of westerns and pirates, for example, while the most recent rebirth, helped along greatly by Tomas Alfredson’s big screen […]

BED OF NAILS by Antonin Varenne

BED OF NAILS Antonin Varenne Translated by Siân Reynolds MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £18.99 When his friend kills himself on stage in a seedy nightclub in Paris, John Nichols leaves the isolation of his camp in southern France’s Lot and heads to the country’s capital to identify the body. But something doesn’t quite feel right, and […]

An Interview With Samit Basu

Name: SAMIT BASU Author of: THE GAMEWORLD TRILOGY (2004 – 2007) TERROR ON THE TITANIC (2010) TURBULENCE (2010 / 2012 in the UK) On the web: samitbasu.com On Twitter: @samitbasu Samit Basu is the author of five novels, all of which have been published in his native India. The publication of his first […]

TURBULENCE by Samit Basu

TURBULENCE Samit Basu (samitbasu.com) Titan Books (titanbooks.com) £7.99 On a British Airways flight from London to Delhi, each of the passengers has a vivid dream. In this dream they see the person they want to be, the ideal them. When the plane lands, the passengers discover that the dreams were a precursor to reality – […]