Hard Bite by Anonymous-9

The hit-and-run driver took everything — his wife, child and legs. Now a paraplegic, Dean Drayhart unleashes payback on suspected hit-and-runners in Los Angeles with helper-monkey Sid as his deadly assistant.

When Sid tears out the throat of a Mexican Mafia member, Dean’s doting nurse gets kidnapped in order to force his surrender. Armed with nothing but his wits, Sid, and a sympathetic streetwalker named Cinda, Dean manipulates drug-cartel carnales and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in a David-against-Goliath plot that twists and turns to a heart-pounding showdown.

Smoke by Nigel Bird

Carlo Salvino returns home missing an arm and a leg. He’s keen to win back the affections of his teenage girlfriend and mother of his child. If he can take his revenge on the Ramsays, so much the better.

The Ramsay brothers are keen to move up in the world and get the hell out of town. They gather all their hopes in one basket, ‘The Scottish Open’ dog-fighting tournament. In Leo they have the animal to win it; all they need to complete the plan is a fair wind.

The Hooks, well they’re just a maladjusted family caught up in the middle of it all…

We Are The Hanged Man by Douglas Lindsay

When the latest hit reality TV show, Britain’s Got Justice, needs an expert police panellist, DCI Robert Jericho’s boss thrusts him into the media spotlight, knowing full well that Jericho’s been desperate to avoid the limelight since his wife’s unexplained disappearance ten years ago.

Meanwhile, a killer, newly released from prison, resumes the bone-chilling handiwork for which he was locked away thirty years earlier. Sinister tarot cards turn up on Jericho’s desk, each one more grotesque than its predecessor.

Someone is setting him up for a neck-breaking fall.

Fireproof by Gerard Brennan

Hell hath no fury for Mike Rocks. He’s fireproof; an anomaly caused by a slip-up in afterlife bureaucracy.

Lucifer bundles him off as an embarrassing problem with a mission to introduce Satanism to Northern Ireland.

And while he’s at it, Mike can exact revenge on the men who took his life.

Fireproof is equal parts crime fiction, dark urban fantasy and black comedy.

Hot Wire by Gary Carson

Emma Martin jacks cars for an uneasy alliance of California rednecks and Mexican drug dealers who ship hot cars to South America, smuggling heroin and cocaine back into the country with the profits. Night after night, Emma cruises the Bay Area looking for cars on their target list.

Until one night, she steals the wrong car and plunges into the heart of an international conspiracy.

Emma’s just a kid in over her head, but try telling that to the police, the feds, and the gang of vicious narco-traffickers…

R.I.P Robbie Silva by Tony Black

Jed Collins, fresh from jail, is struggling to go straight when he hooks up with wild child Gail. Before long Jed is back to blagging ― with Gail in tow.

But Jed has a past, and Gail has a secret about her gangster father that she wants to keep under wraps.

One week in the Scottish capital for Jed and Gail turns into a bloody rollercoaster ride that leads straight to Hell.

The Vanity Game by HJ Hampson

Ripping the lid off the world of celebrity culture, The Vanity Game is a satirical black comedy that’s as disturbing as it is hilarious.

For professional soccer ace Beaumont Alexander, life couldn’t be better. He’s rich and famous and living a life of A-class luxury in his Essex mansion, The Love Palace, with his beautiful pop-star girlfriend, Krystal McQueen.

But a celebrity party kickstarts a chain of events that turns his dream lifestyle into a waking nightmare.

The Storm Without by Tony Black

Still recovering from the harrowing case that ended his police career, Doug Michie returns to his boyhood home of Ayr on Scotland’s wind-scarred west coast. He hopes to rebuild his shattered life, get over the recent failure of his marriage and shed his demons.

But the years have changed the birthplace of the poet Robert Burns.

Soon Doug is tangled in a complicated crimeweb of corrupt politicians, frightened journalists and a police force in cahoots with criminals. The problems he left behind in Ulster are now the least of his worries.

The Crime Interviews: Volume Two by Len Wanner

Len Wanner is back with a new collection of interviews with ten more of Scotland’s finest crime writers.

“Fascinating stuff, whether you are a fan of any particular author, or of the genre as a whole, or even of the wider world of Scottish and British Literature in contemporary times. In fact, I may just have to go back and read both volumes again…” – from the foreword by Ian Rankin.

Once again Wanner’s encyclopaedic knowledge of Scottish crime fiction is put to expert use in his enthralling and revealing conversations with another inspired line-up of stars of tartan noir.

The Crime Interviews: Volume One by Len Wanner

Engaging, informative and shot through with humour, Len Wanner’s collection of in-depth interviews is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary crime fiction. His interview subjects are nine of today’s most successful Scottish crime writers.

Brimming with pithy, witty and sometimes just plain weird revelations, these interviews provide a unique and unforgettable insight into how writers think, and into the professional secrets of some of the genre’s greatest exponents.

Wolf Tickets by Ray Banks

Sean Farrell – thief, petrol smuggler and all-round scoundrel – just got shafted by the love of his life. Nora ran off with twenty grand, a gram of coke, and his favourite leather jacket, leaving him with little more than a hangover and a Dido soundtrack. But Nora’s sights are on the two hundred grand Farrell supposedly stashed somewhere in the middle of Northumberland, and she’s enlisted the help of her old boyfriend, a former hit man, to retrieve it.

WOLF TICKETS is hardcore Ray Banks – ballsy, breathless and brutal.

The Unburied Dead by Douglas Lindsay

A psychopath walks the streets of Glasgow, selecting his first victim. DCI Bloonsbury, the once-feted detective, is put in charge of the investigation, but as the killer begins to hit much closer to home and an old police conspiracy starts to unravel, Bloonsbury slides further into morose alcoholic depression.

In the middle of it all is Detective Sergeant Thomas Hutton, juggling divorce, deception, alcohol, murdered colleagues, and Dylan. He could use a break but the dead will not rest and the past will not be buried…

Murderers Anonymous by Douglas Lindsay

Having handed himself in to the police and been rejected as ‘just another Barney Thomson amongst many thousands’, Barney returns to what he does best: handing out the finest haircuts ever seen in the western hemisphere. However, in trying to come to terms with his murder-ridden past, he joins the local branch of Murderers Anonymous, bringing him once more into contact with the deranged, the criminally insane and the out-and-out sadistically naughty.

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Wee Rockets by Gerard Brennan

A gritty, urban morality tale; and a wake-up call for society. Wee Rockets follows a gang of fourteen-year-old hoods as they rampage through West Belfast, fearless and forever upping the ante in their anti-social crimes. They mug pensioners to pay for the cider, cigarettes and sweets they hope will ease them through so many long, aimless days of summer, sending shockwaves through an already damaged post-Troubles society.

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The Killing Of Emma Gross by Damien Seaman

Düsseldorf, 1 March 1929, the dying days of the Weimar Republic. A prostitute is found dead in a cheap hotel room, brutally murdered. But her death is soon forgotten as the city’s police hunt a maniac attacking innocent women and children. A killer the press has dubbed the Düsseldorf Ripper.

But the killer’s confession to the hooker’s murder is full of holes…

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The Barber Surgeon’s Hairshirt by Douglas Lindsay

In the follow-up to The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson, Barney has become a barber on the run. Suddenly notorious throughout Scotland as the most prolific serial killer since the Black Death, he has escaped Glasgow and the long arm of the law by hiding out in a monastery in the frozen far north-west. However, a new, vicious and altogether more psychotic murderer is wreaking havoc amongst the monks…

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All The Young Warriors by Anthony Neil Smith

From the blizzards of Minnesota to the hostile sun of Mogadishu, a cop and a gang leader form an uneasy alliance to track down two young cop killers who’ve fled to war-ravaged Somalia. Murder, warfare, piracy, love, betrayal and revenge. All the Young Warriors is an epic thriller that will have you white-knuckling your ereader all through the night.

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Phase Four by Gary Carson

When a classified military convoy transporting nerve gas is hijacked by terrorists in the Nevada desert, Homeland Security investigator Matthew Drake is assigned to put one of the suspects under surveillance. But when the gas is released inside a high-rise luxury hotel in an apparent attempt to assassinate the President, Drake realizes – too late – that the hijackers weren’t terrorists, the convoy wasn’t carrying nerve gas and that the intended target is reality itself.

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The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay

Barney Thomson is a Glasgow barber living a life of desperate mediocrity. However, no life’s so tedious that it can’t be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat.

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The Man In The Seventh Row by Brian Pendreigh

Love movies? So does Roy. Maybe he loves the cinema a little too much. Lately, he finds himself sucked from his seventh-row seat into the heart of the action on the big screen. Set in Scotland and California, film expert Brian Pendreigh’s hugely original novel is a celebration of cinema. It’s also a story about childhood, parenthood, obsession, love, loss and redemption.

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Dead Money by Ray Banks

Alan Slater’s a double-glazing salesman with a problem: Les Beale. A rigged poker game with fatal consequences, escalating debt to a man who won’t take “broke” for an answer – Beale’s finally gone too far and only Alan can save his skin. But Alan isn’t about to be dragged down by anyone, least of all his bad-beat, dead money former mate. After all, there’s no such thing as a compassionate double-glazing salesman.

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