Out Now! Seatown Blues by Paul D. Brazill

SEATOWN BLUES, my follow up to GUMSHOE BLUES, is out now … and it`s currently only 99p or 99c, or the like! `Brit Grit shenanigans and carryings on ensue as failed author and Gumshoe Peter Ord returns to his hometown on the North East coast of England. (c) Paul D. Brazill.`

Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks is FREE! Too Many Crooks is a blackly comic Brit Grit romp from the author of Guns Of Brixton and A Case Of Noir. When high-class fence Leslie Hawkins meets Peter Rhatigan in a sleazy London pub, he offers her the chance to get her hands on the Totenkopfring, a legendary piece of

A Case Of Noir by Paul D. Brazill

In snow smothered Warsaw, a boozy English hack with a dark secret, starts a dangerous affair with a gangster’s wife. He escapes to the sweltering Spanish heat where he meets a colourful cast of characters, including a mysterious torch singer and a former East End villain with a criminal business proposition. While in stormy Toulouse,

I’m Over at MURDER IN COMMON

June Lorraine Roberts invited me to sleep on her sofa at MURDER IN COMMON, and so I did just that! ‘I’ve been wanting to feature Paul D. Brazill for some time now, and it’s finally come together. Punk Fiction – a short fiction sampler, is Brazill’s latest work featuring: A Case Of Noir, Too Many Crooks, Shots In

Recommended Read : Canary by Duane Swierczynski

A teenage girl is arrested by the police and becomes an informant. Fast moving, smart, funny and touching, Canary is an action-packed joy. Here’s the blurb for Canary: ‘Every student needs a part-time job.Hers is hunting criminals. Sarie Holland is a good kid. An Honors student. She doesn’t even drink. So when a narcotics cop

Recommended Film: Bikini Blue

Bikini Blue is a touching historical drama that is set in post-war Britain and tells the story of Dora, ( Lianne Harvey) an English nurse whose Polish husband Eryk (Tomasz Kot) is in a mental hosptal suffering from PTSD, and hiding guilty secrets. Wrtten and directed by Jaroslaw Marszewski, Bikini Blue is beautifully shot and

Recommended Film: Charlie Bubbles

“Are you still working sir or do you just do the writing now?”  Charlie Bubbles (1967) is the only film the late, great Albert Finney ever directed. Charlie is successful writer; an aging angry young man who – jaded and cynical, drunk and disorderly – living in London. He  decides to go home again to revisit

Recommended Film: The Land

The Land (2021) is either an anthology of short, sharp films or a collection of bitter vignettes, or maybe even both! Four directors and writers have put together a veritable cornucopia of tales.   The stories are often very violent, sometimes grotesque and gory, occasionally touching and tender, and frequently laugh-out-loud funny.  And regularly all

Recommended Film: Supernova

Not to be confused with the recent Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, Bartosz Kruhlik‘s 2019 film is a brutal but gripping Polish drama which is short, sharp and completely engrossing. The acting throughout is first class but the standout performance is from Marcin Zarzeczny who is stunning as the drunkard whose wife leaves him in the hope

Recommended Film : Hiacynt

Operation Hyacinth (Hiacynt) is a 2021 crime fiction film directed by Piotr Domalewski and written by Marcin Ciaston. Set in Poland in the late ’80s, Operation Hyacinth is a stripped-down, taut and gripping police procedural that tells the story of a murder investigation that digs up some dark, well – buried secrets. Power, curruption and

Top Telly: The Puppet Master/ The Tinder Swindler

A couple of gripping and well- made documentaries about conmen who, far from being charming rogues, are really nasty pieces of work. And, in at least one case, dangerously psychotic.  What’s worse is that these creepy-crawlies are still on the lam. You can check both out on Netflix, if you’re that way inclined.

Recommended Film: I Called Him Morgan.

I Called Him Morgan is a beautiful and elegiac documentary on the life and death of the great jazz trumpet player Lee Morgan. Highly recommended. ‘Helen Morgan had nursed her common-law husband, jazz great Lee Morgan, through heroin addiction. On a February night in 1972, she walked into Slug’s Saloon in the East Village with

Recommended Read: Killer’s Countdown by Wendy H. Jones

Killer’s Countdown (A DI Shona McKenzie Mystery): 1 (The DI Shona McKenzie Mysteries) Now, this is the way to to kick-off a series! Killer’s Countown is a deftly plotted and engrossing police-procedural that is full of grit and warmth – despite the Dundee weather. Grippng and emotionly involving in equal measure, Wendy H. Jones‘ first

Recommended Film: Fisheye

Fisheye is gripping and emotional, full of sharp twists and turns, and with a phenomenal central perforamance from Julia Kijowska. “Fisheye” directed by Michal SzczesniakRunning time: 97 minutesProduction: Poland 2020 ‘A young biotechnologist, who has just made a groundbreaking discovery of a method to cure cancer, is kidnapped right outside her doorstep. In order to