A shabbily idealistic ex-copper sets out to find a missing girl and almost before he can sink another pint, he's over his head in sexual deviation, family betrayal, murder and shame. Philip Oakes is also the author of Bad to the Bone.

Ladder of Angels

Literature & Fiction

Thompson, Brian

Contemporary

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Spencer has the tough talk down well, and his futuristic L.A. has enough cleverly bizarre and intriguing touches to make this an entertaining adventure.""--Publishers Weekly. ""Unreels as madly as if you'd hitched a ride on somebody else's nightmare. Just sit back and enjoy.""--Kirkus Reviews. The third book featuring British novelist Spencer's hard-boiled detective Charley Case is set in L.A. , in Chandler country, but it takes place in the future, the year the `Big One' took place. The quake has ripped California apart and L.A. is now an island. The story begins when Case is offered a simple job, apartment sitting. But before he's finished, Charley will have been embroiled in a trail of blood that leads directly to the steps of the Oval Office, and more sudden death than a popular abattoir sees in a wet Los Angeles fortnight.

Quake City (Bloodlines) (Bloodlines Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

John B Spencer

Mystery

A Two Hander

Susan Penhaligon

Sara Kestelman

Poetry

Imaginatively conceived...stories about men unable to connect with the women they love...cynical wit"" - Kirkus Reviews. ""The deeper Kenworthy's personal vision insinuates itself into your psyche, the more exhilarated you are by his alternately sinuous and jagged prose with its intoxicating chemistry of character and ideas."" - Time Out. These intense, mood-laden stories expertly explore the vulnerable underbelly of human emotion. From the sleazy backstreets of Paris and huddled London bedrooms, to apocalyptic SF, Kenworthy's characters live in a world where hope often turns to despair and where compassion is rewarded with malice.

Will You Hold Me?

Christopher Kenworthy

Dispatches from a slightly successful comedian.

It's Not a Runner Bean...: Confessions of a Slightly Successful Comedian

Humor & Entertainment

mark-steel

Humor

Finely crafted.... Raine could easily join the rank of John Harvey and Michael Dibden.""--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review). ""A quietly jolting first novel.... Offers an unsparing look at some sullen hoods and their dead-end lives in an economically depressed London suburb.""--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review. ""A haunting story...gritty, gray, suffocating reality.""--Booklist

Smalltime (Bloodlines Series)

Raine, Jerry

Teen & Young Adult

First-rate hard-boiled fiction. Mike Hammer probably crossed paths with Griff and Fats, who live in the back alleys of Jim Thompson country."" - Booklist. It's ""Bay City,"" 1962 - a time of peace and trust, when girls hitch-hiked without a care. But for an ice-hearted killer, it's a time of easy pickings. When he kills the daughter of a rich power-broker all hell breaks loose, and now he goes on a crazy killing spree to ""cover it up."" Griff and Fats are free-wheeling homicide detectives who are pitted against a monster who tortures and kills, and time is running out. This police procedural novel is a hardboiled roller-coaster of sex, violence, and suspense. Also includes two Griff and Fats stories.

Hellbent on Homicide (Bloodlines)

Gary Lovisi

United States

The everyday tale of an imaginary superstar eccentric. The Presley neither his fans nor anyone else knew. First-born of triplets, he came from the backwoods of Tennessee. Driven by a burning ambition to sing opera, Fate sidetracked him into creating Rock 'n' roll.His classic movie, Driving A Sportscar Down To A Beach In Hawaii didn't win the Oscar he yearned for, but The Beatles revived his flagging spirits, and he stunned the world with a guest appearance in Batman.Further shockingly momentous events have led him to the peaceful, contented lifestyle he enjoys today.The welcome return of the classic 1984 novel that changed The King's image forever. Updated and revised.

Elvis-The Novel

Robert, Graham

Keith Baty

In the depths of a winter's night a man throws himself into the River Thames. When his body is pulled from the water there are no clues to who he was, no distinguishing marks, nothing ...It is 1989 and Fleet Street is in crisis. So too is Hugh Byrne, a journalist on one of the few remaining papers left there. Suffering acute writer's block, he is sent to cover the story of the drowned man before being ignominiously banished to the bowels of the building to update the Queen Mother's obituary. Downstairs he finds himself in the lair of the mysterious green-carders, a small army of disdained unfortunates who are the only people who know how the paper actually works.As the newspaper prepares for its move to another glass place along the river, Hugh is drawn into uncovering the identity of the drowned man and begins to wonder: is it possible for someone to die twice?Ink is John Preston's darkly comic and absorbing account of a world in transition from a grimy past into an altogether more gleaming present.

Arts & Photography

Lowry, Ray

Individual Artists

Fans of Bruen...will enjoy seeing the Keystone Crooks get picked off one by one."" - Kirkus Reviews. Brady, our narrator, is fifty, gay, and a manic-depressive professional criminal of Irish descent, strung out on lithium and excessive drinking. Today he has neglected to take his medication, which makes him even more manic, violent, and unpredictable. Brady is hired to find a powerful Irish construction chief's daughter. Known as the ""Hackman,"" the chief believes his daughter is in Brixton, a multi-racial part of London that is predominantly black. Brady recruits his former cell-mate, a black thug, and another ""associate"" to get the girl back. This doesn't please the construction chief, who's an out-and-out racist. The whole thing goes horribly wrong when Brady tries to play her black gangster boyfriend against the ""Hackman"" and his Irish heavies in a complicated ransom ploy. The Hackman Blues is ""a masterpiece of London noir"" (BBC Greater London Radio).

The Hackman Blues

BRUEN, Ken

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