Crime & mystery

Salt River

Salt River

James Sallis

As Salt River begins, two years have passed since Turner’s amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left, Val had told him, a mantra for picking up the pieces around her death, not sure how much he or the town has…

The Killer Is Dying

The Killer Is Dying

James Sallis

A hired killer on his final job; a burned-out detective whose wife is dying slowly and in agony; a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits. Three people, solitary and disconnected from society….

The Long-Legged Fly

The Long-Legged Fly

James Sallis

There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night – and it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin’s job to find them….

The Damage

The Damage

Howard Linskey

From the heroin-laced high rises of Newcastle to the seedy back streets of Bangkok, in a world of contract killers, corrupt politicians, bent detectives, coke snorting footballers, fixers, hookers and pimps, Blake is in a race against time to find his potential assassin and discover the truth in ‘The Damage’….

Scorpian Rising

Scorpian Rising

Anthony Frewin

Sidney Blattner is probably the most successful organised crime figure in London, but things are coming unstuck. Who would dare to execute his innocent brother down in Margate, and why? When Blattner attends the funeral, his chauffeur disappears, forcing Sid and his two minders to flee the seaside resort ignominiously in a Transit van….

The Lipstick Killers

The Lipstick Killers

Lee Martin

Queenie Doyle ruled over south London gangland and her four daughters – Frankie, Mags, Sharon and Roxie – with an iron fist….

Cut Short

Cut Short

Leigh Russell

The park – a place where children play, friends sit and gossip, people walk their dogs or take a short cut to avoid the streets. In the shadows a predator watches – and waits – and chooses a first victim. But someone has seen the killer and comes forward as a witness – someone whom the killer must stop at all costs….

Conman

Conman

Richard Asplin

Conman is the story of young Neil Martin, a kindly family man. A bit geeky, a bit nerdy. If you met him, you would assume he runs a failing comic memorabilia store in London’s Soho. Which he does. In order to bail himself out of a huge stock-ruining, poster sopping basement flood, he needs to claim on his insurance. Which he…

Dead End

Dead End

Leigh Russell

Headmistress Abigail Kirby is dead. A potential witness has been murdered. And for DI Geraldine Steel, the stakes have been raised yet higher. Abigail’s teenage daughter, Lucy, is missing, believed to have run away with a girl she met online. Time is quickly running out for Geraldine before her naivety costs Lucy her life…

The Drop

The Drop

Howard Linskey

David Blake is no gangster, or so he likes to think. He’s a white-collar criminal, working for gangster Bobby Mahoney, enjoying the good life while the money keeps on pouring in. Trouble is, a big chunk of that money has just gone missing, along with Geordie Cartwright, and Blake is getting the blame….

Road Closed

Road Closed

Leigh Russell

When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson. The case takes on a twist when the prime suspect is viciously attacked. As police enquiries lead from the expensive Harchester Hill estate to the local brothel, their key witness dies in a hit-and-run. Coincidence? Or murder? Another thrilling case for DI Geraldine Steel….

No Beast So Fierce

No Beast So Fierce

Edward Bunker

An angry and mercilessly suspenseful novel about an ex-con’s attempt to negotiate the “straight world” and his swan dive back into the paradoxical security of crime. It is airtight in its construction, almost photorealistic in its portrayal of L.A. lowlife and utterly knowledgeable about the terrors of liberty, the high of the quick…