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FORTHCOMING TITLES The DamageHoward Linskey'B' format paperback - Published 2 April 2012 From the heroin-laced high rises of Newcastle to the seedy back streets of Bangkok, in a world of contract killers, corrupt politicians, bent detectives, coke snorting footballers, fixers, hookers and pimps, Blake is in a race against time to find his potential assassin and discover the truth in 'The Damage'. ... more >DrivenJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 8 May 2012 Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. ... more > Cut ShortLeigh Russell'B' format paperback - Published 22 May 2012 The park - a place where children play, friends sit and gossip, people walk their dogs or take a short cut to avoid the streets. In the shadows a predator watches - and waits - and chooses a first victim. But someone has seen the killer and comes forward as a witness – someone whom the killer must stop at all costs. ... more > Death BedLeigh Russell'B' format paperback - Published 24 May 2012 Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel relocates to London to take on another harrowing murder investigation. ... more > The Long Legged FlyJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. ... more > MothJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead - and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers... leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery. ... more > Black HornetNo3. in the Lew Griffin SeriesJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 In a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer - by tearing up innocent people like paper targets. The shooter's sixth fatality is cut down while she is walking at Lew Griffin's side. ... more > Salt RiverJames SallisBC0 - Published 26 May 2012 As Salt River begins, two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left, Val had told him, a mantra for picking up the pieces around her death, not sure how much he or the town has left. Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown, Val's banjo on the back of his motorcycle so that it looks as though he has two heads. 'They think I killed someone,' he says. Turner asks: 'Did you?' And Eldon responds: 'I don't know.' Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes in search of a truth he's not sure he can live with... ... more > Cypress GroveJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 There was no major crime to speak of until Sheriff Lonnie Bates arrived on Turner's porch with a bottle of Wild Turkey and a problem: The body of a drifter has been found—brutally and ritualistically murdered—and Bates and his deputy need help from someone with big-city experience who appreciates the delicacy of investigating people in a small town. Thrust back into the middle of what he left behind, Turner slowly becomes reacquainted not only with the darkness he had fled, but with the unsuspected kindness of others. ... more > Cripple CreekJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 Ex-policeman, ex-con, former therapist, Turner is Deputy Sheriff in a small town within driving distance of Memphis, Tennessee, to which he had migrated in hopes of escaping his past. His life is mending as he and Val Bjorn grow closer. And then a young man, arrested on a routine traffic stop with more than $200,000 in his trunk, is forcibly sprung from jail after Sheriff Don Lee is brutally assaulted. Throwing caution aside, Turner goes in pursuit to Memphis, unleashing ghosts he thought he had left behind, and endangering all that matters to him now. ... more > Eye of the CricketNo.4 in the Lew Griffin SeriesJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. ... more > BluebottleNo.5 in the Lew Griffin SeriesJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the sniper? ... more > Ghost of a FleaNo.6 in the Lew Griffin SeriesJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 "Somewhere, among the wastes of the world, is the key that will bring us back, restore us to our Earth and to our freedom," Pynchon wrote in Gravity's Rainbow. Never has a man's search among those wastes, for that freedom, been better represented than in this stunning conclusion to the Lew Griffin cycle. ... more > The Killer Is DyingJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 A hired killer on his final job; a burned-out detective whose wife is dying slowly and in agony; a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits. Three people, solitary and disconnected from society. ... more > DriveJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the sound of someone weeping in the next room....' ... more > Death Will Have Your EyesJames Sallis'B' format paperback - Published 26 May 2012 David (as he's currently known) was one of an elite corps of spies trained during the chilliest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for nine years he has been an ordinary, upstanding citizen....Until, that is, a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him. The only other known survivor of that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. ... more > RemovalPeter Murphy'B' format paperback - Published 22 June 2012 President Steve Wade believes his latest affair with a beautiful Lebanese woman, Lucia Benoni, is a secret. When Lucia is murdered in mysterious circumstances, FBI Agent Kelly Smith is called in to investigate and uncovers links between Lucia, a hostile foreign power, a group of vicious white supremacists and a shadowy high-placed Washington figure known only as 'Fox'. ... more > Red FlagsJuris Jurjevics'B' format paperback - Published 27 July 2012 Army cop Erik Rider is enjoying his war until he's sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote Highland province. Rider lands in Cheo Reo, home to hard-pressed soldiers, intelligence operatives, and profiteers of all stripes. The tiny U.S. contingent and their unenthusiastic Vietnamese allies are hopelessly outnumbered by infiltrating enemy infantry. And they're all surrounded by sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople who want their mountain homeland back. ... more > Rare EarthPaul Mason'B' format paperback - Published 2 October 2012 A washed up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China: illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing. ... more > Forthcoming Open Market Editions Removal by Peter Murphy (2 April 2012)Rare Earth by Paul Mason (26 April 2012) Red Flags by Juris Jurjevics (2 June 2012) |
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