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Review: Perfidia by James Ellroy
I loved James Ellroy’s LA Quartet. They are about as perfect a series of crime novels as it is possible to get, and in White Jazz he produced one of the best novels ever written (in any genre). It...
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Review: Amsterdam Rampant by Neil Cocker
Fin McPhail is having a difficult time out in Amsterdam. He’s getting over the break-up of his marriage (and a resulting case of sexual dysfunction) by throwing himself into his job as a marketing...
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Review: Black Gum by J David Osborne
Having read a couple of Osborne’s previous works (Low Down Death Right Easy and Our Blood In Its Blind Circuit), and having found them both rather impressive, I’ve had my eye on Black Gum for some...
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Potted Reviews: The Rapist by Les Edgerton, Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr,...
It’s been a while since I posted any reviews. I’m still avoiding most social media, but I thought that my recent reading has included some strong books that deserve exposure to a much wider audience...
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Review: Nowhere by Roger Smith
After last year’s grand guignol excess (in terms of both violence and the vileness of the characters) in the mostly US set home invasion thriller Man Down Roger Smith has toned things down and returned...
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Review: The Colombian Mule by Massimo Carlotto
Massimo Carlotto’s The Colombian Mule is one of a series of novels featuring a recurring character called Marco ‘The Alligator’ Buratti, an unlicensed PI who was once imprisoned for a crime he didn’t...
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Review: Zulu by Caryl Feréy
I grabbed this recently while on a book expedition in London. I’d never heard of either the author or the book before, but the blurb appealed to me. It pitched the narrative as somewhere between...
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Review: How’s The Pain by Pascal Garnier
Simon is an ageing hitman with a terminal illness undertaking one last job before retirement. He befriends the young and simple-minded Bernard and employs him as his driver (telling him that he’s a...
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Potted reviews: Russian Roulette: The Konstantin Files by Keith Nixon,...
Keith Nixon’s The Fix impressed me a couple of year’s back (and the sequel of sorts I’m Dead Again is just as good). Both featured a six-feet-five Russian tramp called Konstantin whose skillset is...
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Potted Reviews 1 – A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James and The...
It’s been a while since I’ve written any reviews so I might be a touch ring rusty. But I’ve got a backlog to get through, so here goes. First up is A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James,...
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