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A Few Days Away by Tony Knighton

By Paul Burke

4 October, 2021

A Few Days Away is a hard-edged contemporary noir novel with a relentless anti-hero – a thief with no name. He is hell-bent on revenge and recovering the money that went missing after a bungled robbery that left his partner dead. It’s the second in…

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The Strangers of Braamfontein by Onyeka Nwelue

By Paul Burke

22 September, 2021

The Strangers of Braamfontein is one of those crime novels that hits you in the gut and before you can recover another powerful blow is delivered. It’s a story of corruption, gangland violence, sex trafficking, modern slavery and murder. All of this is seen from…

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Brazilian Psycho by Joe Thomas

By Paul Burke

9 August, 2021

Brazilian Psycho completes Joe Thomas’s São Paulo quartet, bookending the first three mysteries in the series and unifying the piece. The story dives into the underbelly of the city that is the financial heart of Brazil’s economy. It’s a place where the business and political…

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True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

By Rafe McGregor

10 June, 2021

True Crime Story is Joseph Knox’s fourth novel. It’s his first standalone after three instalments of his urban noir series featuring Detective Constable Aidan Watts of Greater Manchester Police. The ‘true’ in the title and the ‘novel’ in the subtitle immediately establish a tension between…

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A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

By Paul Burke

13 May, 2021

Jonathan Ames is perhaps best known for his tense and emotionally draining psychological drama You Were Never Really Here, published in 2013. It was his first noir novel and told the story of a man driven by his own childhood trauma to rescue victims of…

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Chester Himes returns in a new set of Penguin Classics

By Paul Burke

11 May, 2021

With strikingly designed covers, new editions of five novels by Chester Himes have appeared the shelves. Featuring Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones, the reprinting of these hardboiled detective stories is good news – Himes was an American crime fiction genius who is still underappreciated. When…

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A Certain Man's Daughter by Timothy J Lockhart

By Paul Burke

6 May, 2021

Stark House Press does a grand job bringing classic American pulp novels to a new audience and occasionally publishes contemporary tales that catch the spirit of those mid-20th century originals. Timothy J Lockhart’s A Certain Man’s Daughter, the title drawn from a poem, is in…

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The Plastic Nightmare and While Love Lay Sleeping by Richard Neely

By Paul Burke

19 April, 2021

Like a lot of American pulp authors, Richard Neely started out a newspaperman. He then embarked on a successful career in advertising before turning to crime writing in his 50s. In 14 years he produced 15 novels. This volume contains his second and third books,…

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A Few Days Away by Tony Knighton

The Strangers of Braamfontein by Onyeka Nwelue

Brazilian Psycho by Joe Thomas

True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

Chester Himes returns in a new set of Penguin Classics

A Certain Man's Daughter by Timothy J Lockhart

The Plastic Nightmare and While Love Lay Sleeping by Richard Neely

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