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Sharman’s getting married, and down at the nick they’re taking bets on how long it’s going to last. He’s received a call from an American record company who have a letter from a rock star who’s been dead for 20 years – and wants his royalties……
A page-turning epic about the making of a borderland crime family, for aficionados of family sagas and fans of hard-knuckled crime novels by the likes of Donald Pollack, Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke and James Ellroy….
When Susan’s ex-husband, Brad, appears after a decades-long absence, nearly broke and the object of a sexual-harassment suit, Spenser reluctantly agrees to help. As he investigates the circumstances surrounding the suit, he discovers that fund-raiser Brad is swimming in very deep water…
Nik Cohn is a rock legend – a Derry boy who became the omnipresent man in music’s developing story from the 50s to the present; a self-styled rat, addicted to adventure, forever at the heart of the real action.This short memoir provides a strong flavour of the person whose writing inspired Saturday Night Fever and several other…
War correspondent Christopher Marlowe ‘Kit’ Cobb arrives in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to cover the country’s civil war. A passionate believer in the power of a free press and the moral superiority of the United States, Kit is no mere observer. He assumes a false identity to pursue German diplomat Friedrich von Mensinger en route to a meeting…
Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gunrunners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja….
Who massacred a carpet dealer’s entire family? The police have given up on solving the case, but Sharman finds some stones have been left unturned….
For south London private detective Nick Sharman too many things have gone wrong lately. So when he’s offered a job up west, with all the luxury of a posh Knightsbridge hotel chucked in, he doesn’t refuse….
Fast One is possibly the toughest tough-guy and most brutal gangster story ever written. Set in Depression Los Angeles it has a surreal quality that is positively hypnotic. It is the saga of gunman-gambler Gerry Kells and his dipso lover S. Granquist (she has no first name), who rearrange the LA underworld and “disappear” in an…
Lily Ellsworth – erect, firm, white-haired and stylish – is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark’s alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an investigation that grows more harrowing at every turn….
When a mature, beautiful and composed April Kyle strides into Spenser’s office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April oversees an upscale call girl operation in Boston’s Back Bay. Still looking for Spenser’s approval, it takes her a moment before she can…
It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he’s confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide……