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Eleanor Catton: Birnam Wood
Birnam Wood is an activist collective in the Lake Korowai area of New Zealand. The two principals, Mira Bunting and Shelley Noakes, are friends and ecological rebels in a comfortable mid-class village way. Bunting is the risk taker and the strident of the two. She likes to ‘borrow’ peoples land to do the groups…
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Dietrich Kalteis: Nobody From Somewhere
Available June 7, 2022 – Preorder Here Wren Jones is a 15 year old runaway from the foster care system. She picked the wrong car to use the back seat to sleep in. Fitch Henry Haut is a retired detective, widowed, and dying from cancer. While waiting for the meatloaf special in a Vancouver diner,…
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Nick Kolakowski: Love & Bullets
The Rockaway Mob is pissed. Bill has made off with their money. He’s tired of the con artist life and sees the money as a score to relieve the tedium of his existence. It could even be a mid-life crisis he’s going thru. The head of the Rockaway mob is The Dean, a fussy, pompous,…
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Stephen J. Golds: Love Like Bleeding Out
With an Empty Gun in Your Hand Love Like Bleeding out is a broad look at the work of Stephen J. Golds and it will rouse and churn you. It’s the kind of collection impossible to complete in one reading. For me, breathing space was necessary to ruminate and digest. The kind of work your…
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S.A. Cosby: Blacktop Wasteland
Beauregard Montage is in danger of losing his garage. Well, much more than that really as “Bug” can lose everything close to his heart if he takes part in a diamond heist. Bug is known over several states as the best wheel-man around. He’s been straight for a few years, but circumstances have him in…
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E.A. Barres: They’re Gone
Deb Linh Thomas and Cessy Castillo have something in common. Both of their husbands were murdered the same night. For Thomas, it’s devastation. Her husband died at the hands of a crazed sex worker. For Castillo, it was no great loss. Her husband was physically abusive. Each woman will be drawn into something they want…
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Three Autumn Page Turners
Time for a few books to get the blood moving in your veins. Ebook available now! Available for Amazon pre-order TOMORROW. What more can I say about Melissa Yi, than I have over the years? Only then, that she continues to write this amazing series I’m totally hooked on. Dr. Hope Sze and her fiancé…
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Sue Coletta: Pretty Evil New England
Sue Coletta Interview + Pretty Evil New England Book Giveaway! As you know, I like to shake things up now and again. This time, it’s featuring crime fiction author Sue Coletta, writing her first true crime book. Not just that, Coletta has provided an interview on how she managed the writing transition from crime fiction…
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Stephen J. Golds: Say Goodbye When I’m Gone
The nail that sticks out will be hammered down My waiting with veiled patience for Say Goodbye When I’m Gone has paid off. This debut by Stephen J Golds is one urgent, breathless trip and certainly not for the prim and squeamish. It’s noir with a capital N. It’s the blunt end of the sword…
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Joe R. Lansdale: More Better Deals
“Murderers always get caught. Except the ones that get away with it.” Ed Edwards is weary of the game. He’s been working at Smiling Dave’s used car lot for awhile and is tired of the rolled back odometers, and cars held together with electrical tape and a prayer to get them off the lot. “Buyer…
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Jakub Żulczyk: Blinded by the Lights
There are three things that Kuba says Warsaw is about: talking, hustling and cocaine. Kuba deals cocaine, or rather he defines himself as a retailer of his hustle. Talking? Barely, and he has a low number of smiles he can sustain in one day to deal with his clients. Tone deaf to his own emotions,…
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Benedict J Jones: The Gingerbread Houses
With bonus Q&A below Not much is pretty about the Gingerbread Houses, an image that normally conjures beauty and charm. These Gingerbread Houses are vile places where degenerate behaviours are forced upon the young. PI Charlie ‘Bars’ Constantinople is hired to find a pedophile using the name Teddy Bear. A man who has left the…
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Niklas Natt Och Dag: The Wolf and the Watchman
The muck and foulness of Stockholm in 1793 is well described in this debut by Niklas Natt Och Dag and you’ll cringe all along the way. A body found in a Stockholm river has the watchman Mickel Cardell reeling in shock. The victim has been horrifyingly sundered – with no arms, legs, eyes, or tongue.…
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Masako Togawa: The Lady Killer
Philanderer, killer The Lady Killer is a publication from 1963 translated from Japanese, it’s a little bit pulp and a little bit clever in its rendering of the tale. Ichiro Honda is a smooth operator who targets women to fulfill his sexual needs. He chooses the lonely and the uncertain. By his…
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James Hankins: Brothers and Bones
Duplicity Two brothers. One missing for 13-years, the other a successful federal prosecutor. Two words that change a life, and a rabbit hole no one would want to go down. Charlie Beckham never gave up looking for his brother Jake, he just hides it from his fiancee who is exasperated with his obsession.…