THE FEVER KILL By Tom Picirilli

Creeping Hemlock Press, 2007, 978-0976921745, $16.95, Hands up, straight out of the box, let me admit I have more than a soft spot for Picc...

THE BLONDE By Duane Swierczynski (featuring the original novella, REDHEAD)

St Martin's Press, ISBN 978-0312374594, $13.95 Who is Duane Swierczynski? In a relatively short space of time he’s hopped from subgenre ...

Lady's Night

Featuring SECOND SHOT By Zoe Sharp Allison & Busby, £10.99, ISBN 978-0749080167 HELL OF A WOMAN Edited by Megan Abbot Busted Flush Press...

OLD SCHOOLS OF HARD KNOCKS

THE BLUE CHEER By Ed Lynskey Point Blank Press, 2007, ISBN: 9780809556670, $12.95 DEAD STREET By Mickey Spillane Hard Case Crime, Oct. 30 20...

WHO IS CONRAD HIRST? by Kevin Wignall

Simon and Schuster US, November 2007, ISBN 9781416540724 It’s a pity Wignall isn’t better known in the UK. His third novel, Among the Dead ...

KING OF SWORDS by Nick Stone

Penguin, 02 August 2007, £12.99, ISBN: 9780718149222 Taking an unusual tack for a second novel, Nick Stone provides a prequel to his bestse...

THE CONCRETE MAZE by Steven Torres

Dorchester Books, July, 2007, $7.99, ISBN: 084395969X Author, Steven Torres is perhaps better known for his Precinct Puerto Rico Mysteries, ...

Interview with Sean Chercover, author of BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD

Sean Chercover is an ex-journalist, ex-PI, ex-film editor who’s finally settled into a far more stable profession: crime writing. His debut,...

BROKEN SKIN By Stuart MacBride

HarperCollins, £12.99, ISBN 978-0007193172 There's always been a healthy air of humour about Stuart MacBride's darkly twisted proced...

THE DARKNESS INSIDE By John Rickards

Penguin, £6.99, 978-0141021164 Ex-FBI agent turned PI, Alex Rourke returns in John Rickard's third novel, The Darkness Inside , facing p...

DONKEY PUNCH by Ray Banks

Polygon Press, 2007, £9.99, ISBN 978-1904598855 Cal Innes is back. And you’ll be glad to know he hasn’t cleaned up his act. If anything, the...

HARD MAN by Allan Guthrie

Polygon Press, 2006. £9.99, ISBN: 9781846970047 Pearce, the Edinburgh hard-man who first appeared in Guthrie’s debut, Two Way Split, is livi...