AUDITION - Ryu Murakami

Bloomsbury, 2009, ISBN 9780747589488, £10 A couple of years ago, a friend passed me a copy of In the Miso Soup, with the warning that it wa...

THE BIG O by Declan Burke - guest review by Tony Black

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0151014088 Declan Burke has been on quite a trip with his hugely-acclaimed second novel, The Big O...

The Books of the Year

Russel has been a little slow with reviews lately. However, for some of his top reads of the year, and also those of other respected critics...

INTERVIEW - Brett Battles, author of THE CLEANER and THE DECEIVED

About a year ago, we reviewed one of the best new thrillers this reviewer had read in years. THE CLEANER was a breath of fresh air, a real a...

SENSELESS by Stona Fitch

Two Ravens Press , £8.99, ISBN 978-1906120313 There is a theory that the best of novels engage in an ongoing dialogue with their readers....

Guest Review by Tony Black- SANCTUARY by Ken Bruen

Transworld, June 2008 , £17.99, ISBN978-1848270275 , SANCTUARY is the seventh, and possibly final, installment in the Galway-based Jack Tayl...

THE EVIL THAT MEN DO by Dave White

Three Rivers Press, 2008, 978-0307382795, $13.95 Jackson Donne is back. The Jersey PI, last seen in Dave White’s debut novel, When One Man...

Found on the internet 30/07/08

A documentary on the making of Tony Black's Edinburgh based noir debut, Paying For It .

A Double Hit of Moe Prager

Walking the Perfect Square , 978-0-9792709-5-6 $13 And Redemption Street 978-0-9792709-5-6 (dec’08), $13 By Reed Far...

PAYING FOR IT by Tony Black

Preface Books, July ’08, 9781848090705, £16.99 We’re living in a new age of noir for the UK . Derek Raymond, Ted Lewis and their ilk were...

Found on the Internet 05/06/08

Charlie Stella's Sixth Novel Mafiya is the latest from one of Crime Scotland's favourite writers. We've described him as "l...

THE COLD SPOT by Tom Piccirilli

Bantam Press, 2008, $6.99, 9780553590845 Chase has been a getaway driver all his life. After the death of his parents, he’s been raised by h...

WHAT BURNS WITHIN by Sandra Ruttan

Dorchester Books, 2008, 978-0843960747 When you think of Hardboiled, you probably don’t think of Vancouver. Canada never seems – to us outsi...

Found on the internet 29/05/08

Tony Black's excellent debut novel, Paying For It has its own trailer which we ripped from youtube for your viewing pleasure. A review ...

A Double Dose of Stuart MacBride

Sawbones by Stuart MacBride, Barrington Stoke, £5.99, 978-1842995297, July 2008 Flesh House by Stuart MacBride, HarperCollins, £12,99, 978-...

The books we missed: 2007

As ever, 2007 was a year where we ended up playing Catch Up and missed out on some reviews we wished we’d got round to sooner. Here’s our se...

Found on the Internet 29/05/08

Mark Billingham's DEATH MESSAGE was the last Thorne novel, while Billingham takes a break for a superb standalone IN THE DARK (we hope t...

MAFIYA By Charlie Stella

Pegasus Books, $25, 978-1933648651 In tems of tone, Stella’s previous novels have been mostly described as darkly humorous, bearing particul...