THE DISSASEMBLED MAN by Nate Flexer

New Pulp Press, 9780981557908 Nate Flexer's debut is a modern psycho noir in the tradition of Jim Thompson that is one of the first book...

GUTTED by Tony Black

Preface, June 2009, £16.99, ISBN 9781848090521 Gus Dury knows this much: he's a rager. His life is fuelled by anger, both impotent and j...

LOSER'S TOWN by Daniel Depp

Simon And Shuster, March 2009, 9781847374073 Ex-stuntman turned PI David Spandau knows the truth about tinsel-town, understands the egos and...

More we missed in 2008

Every year at Crime Scene Scotland we get sent more books than we can handle. Not that we're complaining, mind you. We try and give ever...

BEAST OF BURDEN by Ray Banks

Polygon, 2009, ISBN 9781846970986, £9.99 Please note that this review contains spoilers for previous books in the Cal Innes series. For thos...

Red Riding

Tonight, 9pm, Channel 4, the first of three film adaptations of David Peace's incredible Red Riding Quartet (yes, three films, although ...

BLEED A RIVER DEEP, Brian McGilloway

MacMillan, April '09, ISBN 978-0230701366, £12.99 In the last few years, Ireland has been consistently upping the stakes with its contri...