On Cabrini Green
Charles Shafer
isbn: 1902002148
£5.99
When Sergeant Paul Kostovic pursues two small-time thieves, he little realises his investigation will bring him into direct conflict with a criminal mastermind. buy now >
The King Cried Murder!
Gwendoline Butler
isbn: 1902002156
£16.99 hb
Set in the same period as the film The Madness of King George, a young Fanny Burney, not yet the famous novelist she is to become, is a maid-in-waiting to the Queen. The life of the entire castle is affected by he wanderings and ravings of the deranged monarch, and fanny does the best she can to soothe her mistress in the midst of her troubles.
Then the murders begin... buy now >
Nameless Coffin
Gwen Butler
isbn: 1902002113
£4.99
London and Scotland are seemingly linked in an apparently insignificant case of handbag and coat slashings until a woman is discovered dead and John Coffin gets on the case as the suspense rises. buy now >
Coffin in Oxford
Gwen Butler
isbn: 1902002008
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This is the first of the Coffin series to be bought into paperback by us, and is the first time this book has been in paperback.
"It was like a Chinese puzzle. In St Ebbe's was a flat, in the flat was a trunk, and in the trunk was a body. The body of a woman..." Ted was bought round from the first attack, if you could call it an attack, with difficulty. he had been found shut up in a cupboard with a scarf tightened around his neck: his own scarf, to add insult to injury...
"Gwendoline Butler is excellent on the bizarre fantasies of other people's lives and on modern paranoia overlaying old secrets; and her plots have the rare ability to shock" - Andrew Taylor, The Independent
Windsor Red
Jenny Melville
isbn: 1902002016
£4.99
The first of the 'Windsor' Melvilles, and never before in paperback. Charmian Daniels, on a sabbatical from the police force, is researching feminist crime and feminist criminals, inspired by her relationship with Beryl Andrea Barker ('Baby'). She takes rooms in Wellington Yard, Windsor, near the pottery of Annie, a childhood friend. The rhythm of life in Wellington Yard is disturbed by the disappearance of Annie's daughter with her violent boyfriend. Dismembered limbs from an unidentified body are discovered in a rubbish sack. A child is snatched from it's pram. Headless torsos are found outside Windsor.Are these events connected? And what relationship do they have to the coterie of female criminals that Charmian is 'studying'...? All is resolved in a Grand Guinol climax that will leave the most hardened crime fiction fans gasping...
"Melville imparts a dreadful disquiet to whatever she so cunningly touches." - The Sunday Times
Cage of Night
Ed Gorman
isbn: 1902002024
£4.99
Twenty-one-year-old Nick Morrow returns to his hometown after two years in the Army and falls in love with Cindy Brasher, Homecoming Queen and town goddess to a long line of jealous men. A string of robberies put Nick at odds with his obsessive love for Cindy. One by one Nick's rivals are implicated in horrific crimes. Nick wonders how much Cindy knows, and why she wants him, like her past boyfriends, to visit the old well in the woods...
"The book is full of Gorman’s characteristic virtues as a writer: sympathy, humour, commitment to the craft of storytelling, and a headlong narrative drive. A real writer is at work here and there aren’t many of those to go around." - Dark Echo
"Cornell Woolrich would have enjoyed Cage Of Night." - Locus
Night Kills
Ed Gorman
isbn: 1902002032
£4.99
Frank Brolan, successful adman, unwitting fall-guy. Someone has murdered a call girl and planted her in his freezer. Frank has to find the killer before the cops find him.As the body count rises, with the killer leaving Frank's mark at every crime, Frank flles into the night and the city. He finds help in an unlikely duo - a teenage whore and a wheelchair bound dwarf with a mind like a steel trap...
"A painfully powerful and personal novel about three outsiders — an alcoholic advertising executive, a man twisted and disfigured by spina bifida, and a runaway teenage girl—brought together in a noir unlike any you’ve ever read. Violent, melancholy, bitterly humorous, Night Kills is a 'relationship' novel of the classic mould. As disturbing and sad a crime novel as I’ve ever read." - Cemetery Dance
Serpents Kiss
Ed Gorman
isbn: 1902002091
£4.99
He is a mild mannered academic being hunted for serial crimes he doesn't recognise as committing - She is a TV anchorwoman desperate to revive falling ratings and who understands the mind that drives him. Between them an innocent young girl's life hangs in the balance. buy now >
The Long Midnight
Ed Gorman
isbn: 1902002083
£4.99
The bizarre murder of a teacher makes Meredith Sawyer confront her past at Dr Richard Candlemass's telekinetic academy and propels her with the investigating detective into a race with death. buy now >
The Poker Club
Ed Gorman
isbn: 1902002075
£16.99 hb
Aaron Tyler and his poker club buddies accidentally kill an intruder which precipitates a descent into a maelstrom of violence that may cost them everything - jobs, families and ultimately their lives. buy now >
On Cabrini Green
The King Cried Murder!
Nameless Coffin
Windsor Red
Cage of Night
Night Kills
Serpents Kiss
