Interview: Mark Grenside
If I was sitting in a bar or a cafe, and I met Mark Grenside out of the blue, the first thing I’d say to him after getting to know him would be: “You should write a crime novel.” Definitely. Originally from London, he first…
Where The Bones Lie by Nick Kolakowski
In present day Los Angeles, Dash Fuller is subsidising his stand-up career (going nowhere fast) with some unlicenced private-eye work. The laughs and the gigs are few and far between in either job, but at least it’s better than his previous job. He used to…
The Hurricane Blonde by Halley Sutton
Salma Lowe is Hollywood Royalty. Or thought perhaps it would be more accurate to say that she comes from a bona fide Hollywood dynasty, but her own star has fallen somewhat. Salma’s mother is the famous Vivienne Powell, film star and method acting guru. Vivienne…
OJ's Knife by John Gibson
OJ’s Knife is a fast-paced and entertaining speculative pulp novel in the Mickey Judge series. It’s based on a fictional hunt for the weapon that killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994, crimes for which Nicole’s husband, the American Football legend and film…
Swann's Way Out
Written by Charles Salzberg — The fourth book in the Swann’s Way series doesn’t have any references to Marcel Proust in it, but instead begins with skip tracer Henry Swann playing poker with his New York pals. A new player, investment banker Stan Katz, takes Swann…
CIS: Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty revisited
When you look at a book by Elmore Leonard (1925-2013), it’s hard not to spend a moment thinking about the great crime writer himself. Though he was born in New Orleans, from the age of nine he lived in Detroit, and some of his most memorable books…
A Hollywood star for Raymond Chandler?
It was Raymond Chandler’s birthday a few weeks ago and Twitter was abuzz with one-liner quotes from the hardboiled crime novels he wrote in the 1930s and 40s. Even today, over 50 years since his death, the author is making an impact on our culture….