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...

CROSS by Ken Bruen

Transworld Publishers, £17.99(hb)/£10.99(pb), ISBN: 978-0593055137 The Jack Taylor novels have a habit of ending with a kick to the gut. The...