BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD by Sean Chercover

William Morrow Books, January 2007, £23.95, ISBN 0061128678 Ray Dudgeon thinks a little bodyguard gig shouldn’t be too hard. He’s protectin...

THE DIRT BROWN DERBY By Ed Lynskey

Mundania Press, 2006, ISBN1594262322, $12 (US) Ed Lynskey’s debut novel, The Dirt Brown Derby, takes the lead from the long running short st...

EVENT NEWS: SHADOWS OF THE SERPENT (David Ashton)

Dundee's favourite son, Brian Cox, voice of Inspector McLevie on BBC Radio 4 will be appearing with the main guest of honour, author Dav...

A FIFTH OF BRUEN

Busted Flush Press, 2006, $18 Collection includes: Funeral: tales of Irish Morbidities Martyrs Shades of Grace Sherry and Other Stories All ...

MY LIFE AS A MAN By Frederic Lindsay

Polygon Books, 2006, ISBN 1904598722, £8.99 Starting with an old man attending protests against the war in Iraq, My Life as A Man takes us b...

BURIED By Mark Billingham

Little Brown, May 2006, ISBN:0316730505, £12.99 Mark Billingham is probably the best mainstream writer the UK Crime Scene has to offer. Str...

DYING LIGHT By Stuart MacBride

Harper Collins, 2006, ISBN , £10 Dying Light, MacBride's second novel, once again features Logan McRae and the lads and lasses of Grampi...

SHROUDED by Carol Anne Davis

Snowbooks, 2006, 1 905005 32 6, £7.99 Douglas likes to stay in control. When it comes to women, he needs them to be still, never changing,...

THE DEAD YARD, by Adrian McKinty

Serpent's Tail, June 2006, ISBN: 1852429127 Michael Forsythe is on holiday in Spain; his first for five years since entering the Witnes...

SHAKEDOWN by Charlie Stella

Pegasus Books, June 2006, ISBN 1933648058 The days of the Godfather are long gone, if they ever really existed. The modern mob is even more...

GO TO HELENA HANDBASKET by Donna Moore

Point Blank Press, 2006, 0809557363 Donna Moore's ludicrously screwball send up of just about every crime book you've ever read is, ...

SATURDAY'S CHILD by Ray Banks

Polygon, May 2006, ISBN: 1904598781, £8.99 We have to say it up front. Not to spoil the surprise or anything, but Saturday's Child is on...

THE SECRET SUPPER by Javier Sierra

Simon and Schuster, March 2006, ISBN: 0743276299, £12.99 In this post Da-Vinci code world, we can expect a lot of publishers and a lot of b...

KING OF THE ROAD by Charlie Williams

Serpents Tail, February 2006, ISBN 1852429062, £7.99 Royston Blake is back. After spending some time in Parpham Asylum, Mangel's premier...

OPEN AND CLOSED by Mat Coward

Five Star Books, November 2005, ISBN: 1594142742, $25.95 The body in the library may be one of the oldest cosy cliches in the book, but in ...

SMOKED, By Patrick Quinlan

Review Books, March 2006, £10.00, 075328256 Smoke Duggan doesn't just have a cool name. He's a cool guy. In a very cool book. Every ...

BUST by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr

Hardcase Crime, May 2006 , ISBN 0843955910 In order to reccomend Bust, one need to go no further than to name the authors of this bleak, dar...