Would you Adam and Eve it, Guns of Brixton and Cold London Blues are brown bread! Well, not quite … My comic crime capers Guns of Brixton and Cold London Blues were published by Caffeine Nights Publishing in 2014 and 2016 respectively. And they received a hell of a lot of positive feedback, particularly Guns…
Recommended Read: Twisted by Steve Cavanagh
Best-selling, millionaire mystery author J T Le Beau is a recluse. A man without a past. And there is, of course, great speculation in the media as to his identity. Paul Cooper, however, lives a quiet, anonymous life with his wife but he’s a man with dark secrets. The two lives intertwine in Steve Cavanagh’s…
Recommended Read: Tainted Love by T S Hunter
Small town boy Joe Hunter heads off to London to stay with his old friend Chris, a rising star in the fashion industry. When Chris is killed, Joe, along with a former police detective, decides to investigate the murder. T S Hunter’s Tainted Love is set in Soho in the mid-1980s and has a great…
Recommended Read: Spare Room by Dreda Say Mitchell
Lisa is a young professional woman with a dark past. When she moves into the spare room of a beautiful old house in a posh part of London, she quickly finds out that the house also has its secrets, and that her odd new landlords are not what they seem. Dreda Say Mitchell’s Spare Room…
Gumshoe Blues Review Round Up
In the wake of the book blog tour organised by BLACKTHORN BOOK TOURS, Gumshoe Blues: The Peter Ord Yarns has garnered a hell of a lot of positive reviews – mostly 4 and 5 stars. A few more reviews have also have also popped up over at Goodreads and at Amazon. So, I thought…
Gumshoe Blues Book Tour
BLACKTHORN BOOK TOURS have organised a book tour for Gumshoe Blues, and what a bloody good job they’ve done. The tour has already kicked off with a great review from Elizabeth Blackthorn herself. Orlando Books and Lit Flits have also said some very nice things about Gumshoe Blues. I’ll add more links as they appear…
Out 17 April 2020: Man of the World by Paul D. Brazill
I’m very pleased to say that All Due Respect/ Down & Out Books will be publishing Man Of The World, the follow up to my novella Last Year’s Man, in April 2020. I’ll give you a bit more info about Man Of The World at a later date. In the meantime, here’s the SP on…
#Noirvember
Yes, it’s #Noirvember again, and since I have 3 books with the word noir in the title, it would be churlish of me not to encourage you to buy them. First up is 13 SHOTS OF NOIR. English writer Paul D Brazill’s 13 Shots Of Noir is a collection of short stories in the vein…
Recommended Read: Still Bleeding by Steve Mosby
‘Death has ripples’ ‘Death is contagious’ Sarah is only a young a child when her father talks to her about death and she is haunted by its spectre all her life. In fact, Sarah is not the only one of the characters in Steve Mosby’s brilliant Still Bleeding to have felt death’s ripples. Her close friend Alex Connor,…
HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEN!
It’s Halloween – or Samhain to you old timers – and accordingly there are a few bite-size Halloween tales over at PUNK NOIR MAGAZINE. K A LAITY givs us NUMBER 13: A NOIR GHOST STORY, SEBNEM E.SANDERS presents THE MUSE, and FRANK WESTWORTH gives us a PORK PIE HAT. Meanwhile, over at MURDER, MAYHEM &…
Recommended Read: White Rabbit by K A Laity
K A Laity’s White Rabbit is a marvelous and potent cocktail of crime fiction, screwball comedy and the supernatural. A cracking yarn choc full of brilliant lines that reminds you of Wodehouse, Preston Sturges and the Coen Brothers and yet is like nothing you’ve ever read before. Fantastic stuff. More please!
Recommended Read: Czech M8 by Frank Westworth
JJ Stoner is a guitar-playing, Harley Davidson-riding contract killer who works for the shadier side of the British secret service. When his boss asks him to head off to Russia on a mission, and a friend asks him to kill an African despot, Stoner’s world gets even murkier than usual. Frank Westworth’s Czech M8 is…
Dee Arr reviews Gumshoe Blues
Over at Amazon.com, broadcaster Dee Arr gives Gumshoe Blues a HELL of a good FIVE STAR review: ‘Dark, Humorous, Liquor-Drenched: Just a Stroll Through Seatown Welcome to a place where ethics and loyalty might rely on who bought the last round. Peter Ord is our detective/tour guide, and we are treated to an intimate peek…
Recommended Read: Very Nearly Dead AK Reynolds
Jasmine Black is a mess. She’s alcoholic lawyer with a low-rent law firm that specialises in getting low-life criminals off the hook, and the guilt she feels because of her job is eating away at her. And then there are the dark deeds buried deep in her past. When Jasmine accidently kills one of her…
