Crime and mystery fiction

The Twain Maxim

Clem Chambers

A billion dollars is a lot of money but not for Jim, a trading whizz kid. While buying into a new mine in Congo his broker has gone missing in the Jungle….

Gangsters Wives

Lee Martin

Sadie, Nicky, Poppy and Kate. Four women who are on the surface sexy, confident and wealthy – but each of them is trapped in a loveless and sometimes violent marriage to four of the most feared London gangsters….

Alive and Kicking

John Milne

Jimmy Jenner has been working as a private detective since a terrorist bomb caused him to lose a leg, and his job on London’s police force. He is hired to work on a straightforward divorce case, but the stakes are soon raised….

London Blues

Anthony Frewin

The chance discovery of a 30 year old blue movie leads back to the film’s maker, Tim Purdom, and the London of the late fifties and early sixties. Purdom was a pioneer of the B&W British porno film and a figure on the periphery of the Profumo sex scandal. He directed eight films…but who was directing him and what was their hidden…

Cypress Grove

James Sallis

There was no major crime to speak of until Sheriff Lonnie Bates arrived on Turner’s porch with a bottle of Wild Turkey and a problem: The body of a drifter has been found-brutally and ritualistically murdered-and Bates and his deputy need help from someone with big-city experience who appreciates the delicacy of investigating people in…