MAYHEM Sarah Pinborough (sarahpinborough.com) Jo Fletcher Books (www.jofletcherbooks.com) £14.99 It is October 1888 and the people of London are already reeling from the series of murders committed by the man who has styled himself “Jack the Ripper”. When the rotting torso of a young woman is found in the vault of the building site that […]
Read More MAYHEM by Sarah PinboroughTHE KILLING POOL Kevin Sampson Jonathan Cape (http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/about-us/…/jonathan-cape) £12.99 Detective Chief Inspector Billy McCartney is part of Merseyside Police’s Drug Squad, his focus currently on the Rozaki brothers who have a monopoly on Liverpool’s heroin trade. When McCartney’s informant, the youngest of the Rozaki brothers is found dead and dismembered in a park, McCartney knows […]
Read More THE KILLING POOL by Kevin SampsonWE ARE HERE Michael Marshall (www.michaelmarshallsmith.com) Orion Books (www.orionbooks.co.uk) £16.99 On a visit to New York to meet his publisher, David bumps into a man on the street – the sort of innocent collision that happens all the time on busy city pavements – who follows him back to Penn Station and confronts him. He […]
Read More WE ARE HERE by Michael MarshallTHE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER Malcolm Mackay Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £14.99 Calum MacLean is twenty-nine years old and lives alone in Glasgow. He is a killer for hire, a hit-man who takes jobs to suit his own schedule and which allow him to minimise the risk to himself. When he accepts a job from Peter […]
Read More THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER by Malcolm MackayGUN MACHINE Warren Ellis (www.warrenellis.com) Mulholland Books (www.mulhollandbooks.co.uk) £13.99 On playing back the 911 recording, it’d seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was naked than that he had a big shotgun. John Tallow is a New York City detective, riding on the coattails of his much more […]
Read More GUN MACHINE by Warren EllisRATLINES Stuart Neville (stuartneville.com) Harvill Secker (www.vintage-books.co.uk/about-us/harvill-secker) £12.99 It is 1963 and Ireland is preparing for an historic visit from US president, John F. Kennedy. The death of the third foreign national, a German businessman, in the space of a handful of days could threaten not only the presidential visit, but the relationship between Ireland […]
Read More RATLINES by Stuart NevilleName: JOANNE REAY Author of: LO’LIFE: ROMEO SPIKES (2012) Joanne Reay is a British scriptwriter and producer. Her debut novel, Romeo Spikes, is the first part of the Lo’Life series, and is available now from Titan Books. Thanks for taking the time to speak to us, Joanne. I’d like to start by looking at the […]
Read More An Interview with JOANNE REAYPhotograph © Dan Stack Name: DANIEL POLANSKY Author of: THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE (2011) TOMORROW, THE KILLING (2012) On the web: http://www.danielpolansky.com On Twitter: @danielpolansky Daniel Polansky’s first novel, The Straight Razor Cure was published in 2011, its mix of fantasy and Chandleresque hardboiled private detective appealing to a broad range of readers. His […]
Read More An Interview with DANIEL POLANSKYTOMORROW, THE KILLING (LOW TOWN 2) Daniel Polansky (www.danielpolansky.com) Hodder & Stoughton (www.hodder.co.uk) £18.99 Earlier this year, I read, reviewed and fairly raved about Daniel Polansky’s debut novel, The Straight Razor Cure. Picking up three years after the events of that first book, Polansky’s second novel – and the second volume of the Low Town […]
Read More LOW TOWN: TOMORROW, THE KILLING by Daniel PolanskyTHE COCKTAIL WAITRESS James M. Cain Hard Case Crime (hardcasecrime.com) £16.99 Back in September 2004, Hard Case Crime – then an imprint of American publisher Dorchester – launched with Lawrence Block’s Grifter’s Game. The idea behind the line, as evidenced by the lurid, pulpy (yet beautiful) covers, was to reproduce the feel of those early […]
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