Hustle by Tom Pitts
Donny and Big Rich are male prostitutes in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. Their lives revolve around getting high. Heroin is what they are addicted to, but if they can’t get that then crack or meth is better than nothing. It means never looking beyond the…
Downfall by Jeff Abbott
Author of 14 previous novels, Jeff Abbott has been described as the thriller writers’ favourite. And some pretty big names – think Coben, Child and Connelly – heap praise on his work in the inside cover of this book. He also won the International Thriller…
Devil with a Gun
Written by MC Grant — With all of the recent fuss about writers’ pseudonyms, perhaps MC Grant is justified in telling us up front that this name is a not so heavily disguised version of his actual name, Grant McKenzie, under which he has written a…
Interview: Karen Sandler
Karen Sandler’s writing career started age nine, with a four-line poem about a pony. Luckily for us, she didn’t stop there. Based in Southern Californian, the mother of two has published 17 successful romance novels, and two books in a YA trilogy. She recently turned…
Untold Damage
Written by Robert K Lewis — Waking up with the needle still in his arm is a new one for ex-cop Mark Mallen, and a new low. He’s spent the past four years of his life as a heroin junkie, a descent that began during undercover…
Femme and Kinsmen
Written by Bill Pronzini — Of all the long-running private eye series out there, Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series must be one of the longest ones still going. It spans more than 30 years and 36 novels. I’ve read a couple of those novels and the…
Skulduggery
Written by Carolyn Hart –– Skulduggery is the first of several re-issues of classic mysteries by Carolyn Hart, released by the imprint Seventh Street Books, part of the publishing house Prometheus. This story takes place in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early 80s. We meet…