News: 23rd July 2010

TWO of No Exit's titles have been nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards for 2010. Conman by Richard Asplin is shortlisted for the Gold Dagger (awarded to the best crime novel in english published in the UK).

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Leigh Russell is continuing her extraordinary year of success by having her debut novel Cut Short shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award for the best first novel from a previously unpublished author. The winners will be announced in a televised event this autumn - good luck to both of them!

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Jew

D. O. Dodd

hardback - Published 22 July 2010

A man regains consciousness to find himself naked in a mass grave, with no idea who he is. His thought is survival, but in a religious war survival depends on knowing which side you are on. ... more >

Road Closed

Leigh Russell

'B' format paperback - Published 1 June 2010

Another thrilling case featuring Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel. ... more >

The Twain Maxim

Clem Chambers

'B' format paperback - Published 20 May 2010

A billion dollars is a lot of money but not for Jim, a trading whizz kid. While buying into a new mine in Congo his broker has gone missing in the Jungle. ... more >

The Twain Maxim

Clem Chambers

hardback - Published 6 April 2010

A billion dollars is a lot of money but not for Jim, a trading whizz kid. While buying into a new mine in Congo his broker has gone missing in the Jungle. ... more >

Chez Max

Jakob Arjouni

'B' format paperback with flaps - Published 25 March 2010

2064 - Securely fenced off from the rest of the world, life in Euroasia, except for a handful of suicide bombings and border disputes, is constantly improving. On the other side of the fence, countries are being exploited and wracked by regression, dictatorship, and religious fanaticism. People live in poverty and misery. ... more >

Stay Another Day

Mark Timlin

hardback - Published 25 March 2010

Could it be the end for Sharman?

For seven years, ex-cop Nick Sharman has lived in 'exile' on a Caribbean island with no UK extradition treaty - his life of luxury funded by the proceeds of a bank robbery where he was the last man standing. Then a phone call out of the blue from London changes everything. The voice from the past belongs to the only woman that he loves, his daughter Judith. Like father, like daughter, she's a police officer, but the family resemblance doesn't stop there - Judith is in big trouble with the law, and has no one to turn to except her father. ... more >

Death Row Breakout Stories

Edward Bunker

'B' format paperback with flaps - Published 25 February 2010

Death Row Breakout brings together seven previously unseen short stories that draw fully on Edward Bunker's incomparable experience of the U.S. prison system. - as James Ellroy says `by an ex-criminal, from the unregenerately criminal viewpoint...' ... more >

Salt River

James Sallis

'B' format paperback with flaps - Published 21 January 2010

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 >

Straight From the Fridge, Dad

Max Décharné

Crown Quarto format - flexibind - Published 22 October 2009

Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960's, Straight From the Fridge, Dad lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all you hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-tailors, bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds, trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies. ... more >

Conman

Richard Asplin

'B' format paperback - Published 23 September 2009

CONMAN is the story of young Neil Martin, a kindly family man. A bit geeky, a bit nerdy. If you met him, you would assume he runs a failing comic memorabilia store in London's Soho. Which he does. In order to bail himself out of a huge stock-ruining, poster sopping basement flood, he needs to claim on his insurance. Which he would do - if he'd remembered to pay his premium.

Terrified of losing everything – his wife Jane, his daughter, his business, his home – and scared to appear the dumb, working-class pleb that Jane's father always took him for, Neil reluctantly agrees to help Christopher - a passing confidence trickster - use his premises for a big sting. ... more >

Sea Change

Robert B Parker

'A' format paperback - Published 23 July 2009

When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it at first appears, and identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be a difficult and emotionally charged investigation... ... more >

The Armageddon Trade

Clem Chambers

'A' format paperback - Published 23 July 2009

The mysterious Max Davas, emperor of trading, makes billions dealing US Treasuries using more computing firepower than NASA. - but now his models are telling him that something is about to go catastrophically wrong... ... more >

Widow's Walk

Robert B Parker

'A' format paperback - Published 18 June 2009

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Cut Short

Leigh Russell

'A' format paperback - Published 18 June 2009

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 >

The Resurrectionist

Jack O'Connell

'B' format paperback with flaps - Published 9 June 2009

Your only child is lost between this world and the next, and more than anything you want him back. A controversial doctor and a mysterious stranger claim they have the answer. Who do you trust? Are you willing to risk everything? Are you prepared to enter Limbo? ... more >

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