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...

THE INTRUDERS by Michael Marshall

Harpercollins, £12.99, ISBN 978-0007209972 The Intruders, like the best of Michael Marshall's work, is brilliantly written. Unfortunatel...

Round up 2006

In this post are several short posts concerning books that arrived at the CSS offices in 2006 but that we never got around to for various re...

HOLLYWOOD STATION by Joseph Wambaugh

Quercus, 2007, ISBN 9781847240248, £14.99 It’s been a long time since we saw anything from Wambaugh, and even longer since he had such a str...

THE STRANGLER by William Landay

Bantam Press, 2007 ISBN 9780593049538, £12.99 Landay’s second novel, following the award-winning Mission Flats, takes place in Boston just a...

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES by Sandra Ruttan

TICO Publishing, January 2007, $26.95, ISBN 0977768899 Sandra Ruttan’s debut, Suspicious Circumstances doesn’t mess about with obscure titl...