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Authors: Kieran Crowley
PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR
“This is bound to be a highly successful series.”
Hearthfire
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2016
A FØROYAR NOVEL
The arrival in Tórshavn of environmental activists campaigning against oil exploration in Faroese waters creates tension and conflict as islanders defend their rights to self-determination in the face of foreign ideology. Hours after a violent clash between islanders and protesters, a Danish woman from the activist group is found dead and apparently raped, for which a local man is arrested and charged. But as Hentze and Reyna look deeper into the case it gradually becomes clear that the killing has other motivations, and that both sides are being manipulated in a way which brings betrayal and another death before it’s resolved.
PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR
“Unmissable and thrilling fiction.”
Lancashire Evening Post
“This well researched story gives us an insight into the violent underbelly of London society.”
Irish Examiner
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2017
A DUNCAN FORRESTER NOVEL
It is the winter of 1946, and after years of war, ex-Special Operations Executive agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Ancient History Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a much-disliked Fellow is found dead in the quad, stabbed and pushed from an upper window. A don is suspected and arrested for the murder, but Forrester is not convinced of his friend’s guilt. On the hunt for the true killer, he finds himself plunged into a mystery involving lost Viking sagas, Satanic rituals and wartime espionage.
The first novel is a brand new crime series by
Hollywood screenwriter Gavin Scott.
AVAILABLE APRIL 2016
A DUNCAN FORRESTER NOVEL
Duncan Forrester’s research on an Aegean island is interrupted first by the murder of a British archaeologist, and then by the outbreak of the Greek Civil War. The worship of ancient gods may provide a clue to the murderer, but in such a tumultuous time, little is what it seems…
AVAILABLE APRIL 2017
A DUNCAN FORRESTER NOVEL
Britain is still trying to exert control over Palestine and facing the terrorist threat of the Stern Gang. As a result of his activities in Greece, Forrester is asked by British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to help avert a plot to assassinate the British Governor of Jerusalem.
AVAILABLE APRIL 2018
A CAPTAIN DARAC NOVEL
In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a highly sensitive crime scene. A man has been found murdered in the midst of a Muslim prayer group, but no one saw how it was done. Then the organisers of the Nice leg of the Tour de France receive an unlikely terrorist threat. In what becomes a frantic race against time, Darac must try and unpick a complex knot in which racial hatred, sex and revenge are tightly intertwined.
A brand new crime series featuring Captain Paul Darac of the Brigade Criminelle.
AVAILABLE APRIL 2016
A CAPTAIN DARAC NOVEL
In the heart of the old town of Nice, the Babazouk, a woman’s body is found. A quarter rich with the smell of Moorish coffee and fresh fish, the Babazouk is also Captain Paul Darac’s own home, and he and his officers from the Brigade Criminelle are called to the scene. Then it is discovered that the woman suffered from a heart condition and her death is put down to natural causes, but Darac becomes fascinated by the woman’s life and the anomalies of the case. He must put aside allegiances past and present to disentangle a story of greed and murder – and become a target himself.
AVAILABLE APRIL 2017
A VINYL DETECTIVE NOVEL
He is a record collector – a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the ‘Vinyl Detective’ and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording – on behalf of an extremely wealthy (and rather sinister) shadowy client. Given that he’s just about to run out of cat biscuits, this gets our hero’s full attention. So begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all…
“An irresistible blend of murder, mystery and music… our protagonist seeks to find the rarest of records – and incidentally solve a murder, right a great historical injustice and, if he’s very lucky, avoid dying in the process.”
Ben Aaronovitch, bestselling author of
Rivers of London
“The Vinyl Detective is one of the sharpest and most original characters I’ve seen for a long time.”
David Quantick
AVAILABLE MAY 2016
A VINYL DETECTIVE NOVEL
His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second begins with the discovery of one. When a mint copy of the final album by Valerian – England’s great lost rock band of the 1960s – surfaces in a charity shop, all hell breaks loose. Finding this record triggers a chain of events culminating in our hero learning the true fate of the singer Valerian, who died just after – or was it just before? – the abduction of her two-year-old son.
Along the way, the Vinyl Detective finds himself marked for death, at the wrong end of a shotgun, and unknowingly dosed with LSD as a prelude to being burned alive. And then there’s the grave robbing…
“Like an old 45rpm record, this book crackles with brilliance.”
David Quantick
“This tale of crime, cats and rock & roll unfolds with an authentic sense of the music scene then and now – and a mystery that will keep you guessing.”
Stephen Gallagher
AVAILABLE MAY 2017
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A MIKE HAMMER NOVEL
Hammer and Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case (
I, the Jury
). Walking romantically along the boardwalk, they witness a brutal beating at the hands of some vicious local cops—Hammer wades in to defend the victim. When a woman turns up naked—and dead—astride the statue of a horse in the small-town city park, how she wound up this unlikely Lady Godiva is just one of the mysteries Hammer feels compelled to solve…
“Collins knows the pistol-packing PI inside and out, and Hammer’s vigilante rage (and gruff way with the ladies) reads authentically.”
Booklist
“A fun read that rings true to the way the character was originally written by Spillane.”
Crimespree Magazine
A MIKE HAMMER NOVEL
Hammer accompanies a conservative politician to Moscow on a fact-finding mission. While there, he is arrested by the KGB on a bogus charge, and imprisoned; but he quickly escapes, creating an international incident by getting into a firefight with Russian agents. On his stateside return, the government is none too happy with Mr. Hammer. Russia is insisting upon his return to stand charges, and various government agencies are following him. A question dogs our hero: why him? Why does Russia want him back, and why (as evidence increasingly indicates) was he singled out to accompany the senator to Russia in the first place?
“It may be Spillane’s hero throwing the punches in these stories, but make no mistake—it’s the writer who knocks you out.”
BarnesandNobleReview.com
“[Collins’s] prose never lets up for a second… a slam-bang climax that had us needing a drink when it was over.”
Pulp Fiction Reviews
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