Blood Work
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A lot of people should be thanked for the hard work they have put into bringing Blood Work to the bookshelf. And so, many thanks to James Nightingale, Tess Callaway and the lovely Caroline Gascoigne for their incredible help and support, the sales and marketing team from Hutchinson who did so much to get Jack Delaney out amongst the public, Justine for her eagle eye, Anna Hughes who handled the baton like an Olympiad and Robert Caskie for his continual encouragement and advice. Lucie Birnie of Lucy's Cafe for making me big in the Runtons and especially Lynn Butler for keeping my spirits high and the decanter full!
But the biggest thanks to you the reader, without whom Jack Delaney would just be a sad and bitter man, mumbling incoherently to himself in the corner of an empty bar as he sips his solitary pint.
MP
ALSO AVAILABLE IN ARROW, A COLLECTION OF COMING-OF-AGE STORIES FROM SOME OF THE MASTERS OF CRIME FICTION, SELECTED AND EDITED BY JOHN HARVEY
Men From Boys
'Terrific tales' Independent on Sunday
Featuring Mark Billingham, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, Bill James, Dennis Lehane, George P. Pelecanos, Peter Robinson, James Sallis, John Straley, Brian Thompson, Don Winslow, Daniel Woodrell and a novella by Andrew Coburn.
Little is perfect for the men in these seventeen crime stories and nothing is straightforward. The worlds they inhabit are as different as a deprived London housing estate and a rundown jazz joint in Manhattan, but each of them is striving to determine what is right, what will given them dignity, what will earn them self-respect. Some succeed. Others fail.
In this acclaimed collection of stories, John Harvey has gathered together some of the very best names in contemporary crime writing. Together thse writers answer what it is to be a father, a son, a man.
'Bonus points to Harvey as editor for taste, virtuosity and some weird kind of compatibility-spotting which detects kinship between the most dissimilar authors. An original, outstanding collection – readable and rewarding from start to finish' Literary Review
ALSO AVAILABLE IN ARROW
Triptych
Karin Slaughter
Three people with something to hide. One killer with nothing to lose.
When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated.
As a one-off killing it's shocking, but when it becomes clear that it's just the latest in a series of similar attacks, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are called in, and Michael is forced into working with Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team – a man he instinctively dislikes.
Twenty-four hours later, the violence Michael sees around him every day explodes in his own back yard. And it seems the mystery behind Monroe's death is inextricably entangled with a past that refuses to stay buried . . .
'This is without doubt an accomplished, compelling and complex tale, with page-turning power aplenty' Daily Express
'Criminally spectacular' OK!
ALSO AVAILABLE IN ARROW
Live Flesh
Ruth Rendell
Why did he do it? Why had it happened? What sort of fiend was he? Why should Victor Jenner, the child of happily-married, middle-class parents, succumb to such violent rages? Why should he have needed to make motiveless attacks on women? Victor didn't know.
But Victor did know that the last ten years – the years in prison – had been a mistake. He had never intended to harm anyone. It had all been an accident. In fact, his life had been a series of accidents, one mistake leading to the next.
Now, out of prison at last, Victor still isn't free. The past holds him so he can't go forward. So Victor goes back – and begins a chain of accidents, a new string of tragic mistakes.
'Powerfully claustrophobic'
Guardian
'Ruth Rendell shows an unparalleled understanding of human evil'
The Sunday Times
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The Skin Gods
Richard Montanari
Philadelphia is blistering in the summer heat and detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano prowl the streets with growing unease. Suddenly, a series of crimes shatters the restless city. A beautiful secretary is slashed to death in a grimy motel shower; a street hustler brutally murdered with a chainsaw. Piece by piece, a sickening puzzle presents itself: someone is recreating famous Hollywood murder scenes and inserting the clips into videos – for an unsuspecting public to find.
Investigations reveal a violent world of underground film, pornography and seedy nightclubs, hidden to all but the initiated. None of The Actor's victims are as innocent as they appear, though, and Kevin and Jessica soon discover they're not just chasing a homicide suspect. They are stalking evil itself . . .
ALSO AVAILABLE IN ARROW
Cold Light
John Harvey
Forty-eight hours, that's what they reckon, isn't it?
Forty-eight hours. If you don't find them in that, likely they're sodding dead . . .
A cabbie's been beaten up, there's a drunk and disorderly in the interview room and a possible child abuser on the way in. Nothing unusual there, then, just a pretty normal Christmas holiday for DI Resnick and his team.
Normal, that is, until Dana Mattheison calls to report her flatmate, Nancy, missing
Pretty soon the police have proof that Nancy was kidnapped, and then – as the New Year celebrations wind down – the first tape arrives, and Resnick knows they're dealing with a dangerous psychopath.
'John Harvey's Resnick novels are far and away the finest British police procedurals yet written'
GQ
'Cold Light is just about flawless . . . precisely crafted . . . exquisitely suspenseful . . . a tale that will long trouble your dreams'
Washington Post
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