CIS: The Joe Kurtz novels by Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons was already well into his writing career when he began the Joe Kurtz series. Prior to the first book, Hardcase (2001), Simmons was known as first a science fiction and then later as a horror writer. Most recently Simmons has been writing books…
Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
On top of being one of the greatest baskeball players of all time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has recently revealed his love of murder mysteries and, in particular, those involving Sherlock Holmes. Here he’s teamed up with co-writer Anna Waterhouse to begin a series exploring Mycroft Holmes,…
CIS: A classic revisited - Savage Season by Joe R Lansdale
Joe R Lansdale is a veteran writer of more than 25 years. He started out writing short stories for the independent press – mainly horror and thrillers. It’s something he still does, but has now achieved considerable mainstream success. His crime novel Cold in July was recently filmed with…
Interview: Michael Koryta
Having a new book published is an anxious time for any writer, no matter how experienced. But when Stephen King said ‘You can’t put this baby down’ Michael Koryta’s new release, Last Words, that must have soothed some of the worry. A series of suspense novels including…
Delving Deeper by Josh K Stevens
The second Deuce Walsh thriller follows on from April’s Scratch the Surface. We found that book to be an exciting first instalment to the trilogy, and a Midwestern hardboiled gangster novel with shades of Elmore Leonard and Donald E Westlake. We noted that Scratch the Surface…
Vortex by Paul D Marks
Vortex is a first-person narrated novella which readers can blast through in a couple of hours. It’s a hardboiled thriller with strong noir overtones, and is about the past – how you can’t change it or the mistakes you’ve made, and how the past changes…
Dead Heat with the Reaper by William E Wallace
All Due Respect is steadily building a solid reputation stateside as an indie publisher releasing the kind of gritty, hardboiled and noirish crime fiction that we enjoy. Alongside its quarterly short fiction magazine the company has been publishing novels, short story collections and novellas, and…