Category: Noir
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Deity by Matt Wesolowski – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who adored his music and his endless charity work, and those who viewed him as a despicable predator, who manipulated and abused young and vulnerable girls. Online journalist, Scott King,…
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Auxiliary: London 2039 by Jon Richter – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The silicon revolution left Dremmler behind, but a good detective is never obsolete. London is quiet in 2039—thanks to the machines. People stay indoors, communicating through high-tech glasses and gorging on simulated reality while 3D printers and scuttling robots cater to their every whim. Mammoth corporations wage war for dominance in a world…
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Zodiac by Anamaria Ionescu – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB When investigator Sergiu Manta is handed the investigation into a series of bizarre murders, he can’t sure what he’s getting involved in as he has to work with regular detective Marius Stanescu, who has his own suspicions about the biker he has been told to work with, and wants to get to the…
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Vulcan’s Forge by Robert Mitchell Evans – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Jason Kessler doesn’t fit in the society of Nocturnia, the sole colony that survived the Earth’s destruction. Between the colony’s dedication to a distorted vision of mid-twentieth century Americana, its sexually repressive culture, and the expectation that his most important duty is marriage and children Jason rebels, throwing himself into an illicit and…
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Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The papers want blood. The force wants results. The law must be served, whatever the cost. July 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and Bobby March, the city’s own rock-star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel. Alice Kelly is thirteen years old, lonely and missing. Meanwhile the niece of McCoy’s…
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Mexico Street by Simone Buchholz – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-threatening discovery involving criminal gangs and a very illicit love story… Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation…
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Raging by Stephen Scarcliffe – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A bloody turf war is erupting between the shellsuit gangsters and the Donaldsons, while the family outcasts look to take advantage of the disorder on the streets… Who torched Dougie Donaldson’s taxi? Why are the bodies piling up in the high rises? Why is a scorned figure from the past poking his nose…
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The Home by Sarah Stovell – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A dark and emotive thriller which shines a light on the troubling issue of children in care, The Home marks the return of Sarah Stovell, author of the 2017 international bestseller Exquisite. When the body of pregnant, fifteen-year-old Hope Lacey is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but…
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Pine by Francine Toon – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween…
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Bella by R.M Francis – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Bella is his debut novel and a love song to the Black Country. It is a text that deals with queer identity and experience, specifically in a non-metropolitan setting, showcasing the upheaval and difficulties facing the working-classes of post-industrial communities. The novel plays with oral traditions of storytelling, using Black Country dialects and…
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When The Dead Come Calling by Helen Sedgwick – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Published by Point Blank 9 January 2020 Hardback £14.99 ‘When The Dead Come Calling confirms what many of us already knew: Helen Sedgwick is one of Scotland’s finest contemporary storytellers.’ CLAIRE ASKEW, author of All the Hidden Truths ‘By combining up-to-the-minute themes, well-tuned dialogue and warm and witty details of everyday life with…
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Smalltown Boy by T.S. Hunter – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It’s Christmas Eve, 1988 and Russell and Joe are among the guests at a lavish party in a celebrity mansion in the heart of Soho. Television presenter and national treasure, Nathan Bentley has a formidable reputation for legendary parties—with wall-to-wall celebrities, drink flowing, drugs, dancing, ill-tempered Cordon-Bleu chefs laying on the food and…
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Return To Hiroshima by Bob Van Laerhoven – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB 1995, Japan struggles with a severe economic crisis. Fate brings a number of people together in Hiroshima in a confrontation with dramatic consequences. Xavier Douterloigne, the son of a Belgian diplomat, returns to the city, where he spent his youth, to come to terms with the death of his sister. Inspector Takeda finds…
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