THE SUDDEN ARRIVAL OF VIOLENCE Malcolm Mackay Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £12.99 He’s touching the front of his coat, feeling the shape of the gun. Should have got rid of it. On any other night, any other job, he would. But this isn’t any other job. This, he intends, will be his last. Calum MacLean is determined […]
Read More THE SUDDEN ARRIVAL OF VIOLENCE by Malcolm MackayAnd so, once more, to the end of the year and the requisite retrospective of my reading habits over the past twelve months here at Reader Dad. Regular visitors and Twitter followers will know that 2013 has been a year full of ups and downs (more downs, unfortunately, than ups) for me, what with five […]
Read More The 2013 Round-UpHOW A GUNMAN SAYS GOODBYE Malcolm Mackay Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £14.99 Careful on these stairs. That would be some return, falling flat on his face the first day back. Not the first time he’s been to the club since he had his hip replaced. He’s been haunting the place for the last two weeks. Letting everyone […]
Read More HOW A GUNMAN SAYS GOODBYE by Malcolm MackayTHE JACKAL’S SHARE Chris Morgan Jones (www.chrismorganjones.com) Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £16.99 Iranian billionaire Darius Qazai is heading for retirement. When an attempt to sell portions of his business result in a report linking him with art smuggling, he hires Ikertu Consulting to dig into his past and prove that he has nothing to hide. Assigned to […]
Read More THE JACKAL’S SHARE by Chris Morgan JonesTHE 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 MackayIt’s that time of the year again when the “best of the year” lists start to appear. Not wanting to be left out, and because I had some fun with it last year, I’ve decided to do another round-up, and remind everyone what my top ten (or so) books of 2012 are. THE ROUND-UP By […]
Read More The 2012 Round-UpPhotograph © Kate Eshelby Name: SIMON LELIC Author of: RUPTURE (2010) THE FACILITY (2011) THE CHILD WHO (2012) On the web: http://www.simonlelic.com On Twitter: @simon_lelic Simon Lelic burst onto the crime fiction scene in early 2010 with his, frankly, stunning novel, Rupture, the story of a police officer’s investigation into a horrific school […]
Read More An Interview With SIMON LELICTHE CHILD WHO Simon Lelic (www.simonlelic.com) Mantle (www.panmacmillan.com) £12.99 Released: 5 January 2012 Earlier this year, in the inaugural post on Reader Dad, I noted that Simon Lelic, after only two novels, is an absolute must-read author. His third novel, the tense and ultimately heart-breaking The Child Who is released in January, and is, to […]
Read More THE CHILD WHO by Simon LelicThe Facility Simon Lelic (www.simonlelic.com) Mantle (mantle.panmacmillan.com) £12.99 Simon Lelic’s first novel, the quietly horrific RUPTURE, made him an instant “must-read”. THE FACILITY, his second novel, bleaker and tougher than the first, but no less enjoyable, has cemented that impression, leaving […]
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