About the book

A new thriller from the bestselling crime and horror author Chris Fowler. In Dubai there’s a new world of high-luxury resorts emerging for the super-rich but at what price to everyone else? Lea, Roy and their 15 year-old daughter Cara live in a gated community reserved for foreign workers. Roy has been hired to deal with teething problems at Dream World, a futuristic beach complex. In the oppressive heat, the wives appear happy to follow behind their husbands, cooking and arranging tea parties, but Lea finds herself a virtual prisoner in a land where Western women are regarded with indifference and suspicion. At least there are a few friendly outsiders who don t enjoy the conformity of the ex-pat community – until one night, when the most outspoken one dies in a suspicious accident. It’s the first in a string of terrible occurrences that divide the foreign workers. Lea’s neighbours start to blame migrants, locals and even each other. Lea is convinced that deliberate acts of cruelty are being committed but is there a real threat to her life, or is she becoming paranoid? And what if the thing she fears most is really happening? What happens in a world where only the rich are important? Welcome to a future that s five minutes away, where rebellion against conformity can lead to the unthinkable …

Biography

Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London. He is the multi award-winning author of many novels and short story collections, and the author of the Bryant & May mysteries. His first bestseller was ‘Roofworld’. Subsequent novels include ‘Spanky’, ‘Disturbia’, ‘Psychoville’ and ‘Calabash’. He spent 25 years working in the film industry.

His collection ‘Red Gloves’, 25 new stories of unease, marked his first 25 years of writing. His memoir ‘Paperboy’ won the Green Carnation Award, and was followed by a 2nd volume, ‘Film Freak’. Other new novels include the dark comedy-thriller ‘Plastic’ and the haunted house chiller ‘Nyctophobia’.

He has written comedy and drama for BBC radio, including Radio One’s first broadcast drama in 2005. He has a weekly column called ‘Invisible Ink’ in the Independent on Sunday. His graphic novel for DC Comics was the critically acclaimed ‘Menz Insana’. His short story ‘The Master Builder’ became a feature film entitled ‘Through The Eyes Of A Killer’, starring Tippi Hedren and Marg Helgenberger. Among his awards are the Edge Hill prize 2008 for ‘Old Devil Moon’, and the Last Laugh prize 2009 for ‘The Victoria Vanishes’.

Christopher has achieved several pathetic schoolboy fantasies, releasing a terrible Christmas pop single, becoming a male model, writing a stage show, posing as the villain in a Batman graphic novel, running a night club, appearing in the Pan Books of Horror, and standing in for James Bond.

His short stories have appeared in Best British Mysteries, The Time Out Book Of London Short Stories, The Best Of Dark Terrors, London Noir, Neon Lit, Cinema Macabre, the Mammoth Book of Horror and many others. After living in the USA and France he is now married and lives in London’s King’s Cross and Barcelona.

Product details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Solaris (6 Oct. 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1781083746
• ISBN-13: 978-1781083741
• Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.3 x 19.7 cm

About the book

A new thriller from the bestselling crime and horror author Chris Fowler. In Dubai there’s a new world of high-luxury resorts emerging for the super-rich but at what price to everyone else? Lea, Roy and their 15 year-old daughter Cara live in a gated community reserved for foreign workers. Roy has been hired to deal with teething problems at Dream World, a futuristic beach complex. In the oppressive heat, the wives appear happy to follow behind their husbands, cooking and arranging tea parties, but Lea finds herself a virtual prisoner in a land where Western women are regarded with indifference and suspicion. At least there are a few friendly outsiders who don t enjoy the conformity of the ex-pat community – until one night, when the most outspoken one dies in a suspicious accident. It’s the first in a string of terrible occurrences that divide the foreign workers. Lea’s neighbours start to blame migrants, locals and even each other. Lea is convinced that deliberate acts of cruelty are being committed but is there a real threat to her life, or is she becoming paranoid? And what if the thing she fears most is really happening? What happens in a world where only the rich are important? Welcome to a future that s five minutes away, where rebellion against conformity can lead to the unthinkable …

Biography

Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London. He is the multi award-winning author of many novels and short story collections, and the author of the Bryant & May mysteries. His first bestseller was ‘Roofworld’. Subsequent novels include ‘Spanky’, ‘Disturbia’, ‘Psychoville’ and ‘Calabash’. He spent 25 years working in the film industry.

His collection ‘Red Gloves’, 25 new stories of unease, marked his first 25 years of writing. His memoir ‘Paperboy’ won the Green Carnation Award, and was followed by a 2nd volume, ‘Film Freak’. Other new novels include the dark comedy-thriller ‘Plastic’ and the haunted house chiller ‘Nyctophobia’.

He has written comedy and drama for BBC radio, including Radio One’s first broadcast drama in 2005. He has a weekly column called ‘Invisible Ink’ in the Independent on Sunday. His graphic novel for DC Comics was the critically acclaimed ‘Menz Insana’. His short story ‘The Master Builder’ became a feature film entitled ‘Through The Eyes Of A Killer’, starring Tippi Hedren and Marg Helgenberger. Among his awards are the Edge Hill prize 2008 for ‘Old Devil Moon’, and the Last Laugh prize 2009 for ‘The Victoria Vanishes’.

Christopher has achieved several pathetic schoolboy fantasies, releasing a terrible Christmas pop single, becoming a male model, writing a stage show, posing as the villain in a Batman graphic novel, running a night club, appearing in the Pan Books of Horror, and standing in for James Bond.

His short stories have appeared in Best British Mysteries, The Time Out Book Of London Short Stories, The Best Of Dark Terrors, London Noir, Neon Lit, Cinema Macabre, the Mammoth Book of Horror and many others. After living in the USA and France he is now married and lives in London’s King’s Cross and Barcelona.

Product details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Solaris (6 Oct. 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1781083746
• ISBN-13: 978-1781083741
• Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.3 x 19.7 cm

About the Book

June Cryer is a shopaholic suburban housewife trapped in a lousy marriage. Discovering her husband’s infidelity with her flight attendant neighbour, she loses her her home, her husband and her credit rating, but she has been offered a solution: a friend needs someone reliable to act as caretaker in a spectacular London high-rise apartment. It’s just for the weekend, but there s good money in it… Seizing the opportunity to escape, June moves into the penthouse only to find that there s no electricity and no phone. She must flat-sit until the security system comes back on. When a terrified girl breaks into the flat and June makes the mistake of asking the neighbours for help, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating nightmare, trying to prove that a murderer exists. For the next 24 hours, she must survive on the streets without friends or money, solve an impossible crime, and fight off the urge to buy a new wardrobe.

Review

‘Christopher Fowler is a truly original writer. I’ve loved everything of his I’ve ever read, and with Plastic he’s raised his game even higher’. –Peter James

‘A breathtaking thriller set in the dark shadow of the everyday, Plastic is a razor sharp parable of modern life.’ –Jake Arnott

About the Author

Born in Greenwich, London, Christopher Fowler is the multi-award winning author of the lauded ‘Bryant and May Peculiar Crimes Unit’ mystery novels. Solaris published his horror novel Hell Train in 2012. He is a regular columnist for both The Independent on Sunday and The Financial Times.

Product details

• First Edition First Printing
• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Solaris (1 Aug. 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1781081247
• ISBN-13: 978-1781081242
• Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 1.9 x 19.5 cm

We are thrilled that author Dolores Gordon-Smith has exclusively created some special stamped books of her latest Jack Haldean murder mystery After the Exhibition. We think it’s only a matter of time before a major publisher takes the series on.

This is Dolores sixth book in the Jack Haldean Murder Mystery Series. Each rare book is signed, numbered, has a unique line of text and is stamped with the official Jack Haldean stamp.

About the book
When Mrs Paxton, related to the aristocratic Leigh family of Sussex, is found poisoned in her bedroom one morning, fingers point towards her artist nephew Terence Napier, seen leaving the house earlier that previous evening after a row over her will. Months later and Napier has never been found, but curiously a dead body is discovered in a train compartment, and scattered at the dead man’s feet are the famous Leigh sapphires – a necklace owned by Mrs Paxton, but destined to go back to the Leighs in the event of her death. Scotland Yard once again call upon the services of author Jack Haldean to help solve this most complicated of cases. Soon there are links to a serial thief and murderer, known as the The Vicar, and it seems there is more to this case than a family feud over inheritance.

Product details

• First Edition First Printing
• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd (28 Mar 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0727882635
• ISBN-13: 978-0727882639
• Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 14.5 x 2.4 cm

We are thrilled that new author Dolores Gordon-Smith has exclusively created a special doodled limited edition of her novel Mad About the Boy?.

Dolores is following in the footsteps of Catriona McPherson at Constable and Robinson who has just signed a £XXXXXXXX contract with Hodder and Stoughton. We think it’s only a matter of time before a major publisher takes the series on.

This is Dolores second book in the Jack Haldean Murder Mystery Series – approximately 1200 books make up the first print run.

There are 5 different varients of doodle:

• A vintage car
• A dancing couple
• A glass or bottle of bubbly.
• A fan
• A hammer & sickle

The books are also numbered 1-50 and double signed by the author and cover artist Ken Leeder.

About the book

It’s the height of summer 1923 and Isabelle’s parents are celebrating their Silver Wedding with a ball at their country house, Hesperus, in Sussex. Isabelle has a problem: two men, the glamorous, earnest Malcolm and the quiet, troubled Arthur are in love with her, but worry is soon replaced by tragedy. One of the guests apparently commits suicide at the ball. Jack Haldean, the hero of “A Fete Worse Than Death”, thinks it’s murder, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian Revolutionaries become involved in the affair. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnap, torture and more murder, Jack faces an agonizing choice on his journey to the truth – a journey which will change Isabelle’s life forever.

Product details

We are thrilled that new author Dolores Gordon-Smith has exclusively created a special doodled limited edition of her novel Mad About the Boy?.

Dolores is following in the footsteps of Catriona McPherson at Constable and Robinson who has just signed a £XXXXXXXX contract with Hodder and Stoughton. We think it’s only a matter of time before a major publisher takes the series on.

This is Dolores second book in the Jack Haldean Murder Mystery Series – approximately 1200 books make up the first print run.

There are 5 different varients of doodle:

• A vintage car
• A dancing couple
• A glass or bottle of bubbly.
• A fan
• A hammer & sickle

The books are also numbered 1-50 and double signed by the author and cover artist Ken Leeder.

About the book

It’s the height of summer 1923 and Isabelle’s parents are celebrating their Silver Wedding with a ball at their country house, Hesperus, in Sussex. Isabelle has a problem: two men, the glamorous, earnest Malcolm and the quiet, troubled Arthur are in love with her, but worry is soon replaced by tragedy. One of the guests apparently commits suicide at the ball. Jack Haldean, the hero of “A Fete Worse Than Death”, thinks it’s murder, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian Revolutionaries become involved in the affair. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnap, torture and more murder, Jack faces an agonizing choice on his journey to the truth – a journey which will change Isabelle’s life forever.

Product details

We are thrilled that new author Dolores Gordon-Smith has exclusively created a special doodled limited edition of her novel Mad About the Boy?.

Dolores is following in the footsteps of Catriona McPherson at Constable and Robinson who has just signed a £XXXXXXXX contract with Hodder and Stoughton. We think it’s only a matter of time before a major publisher takes the series on.

This is Dolores second book in the Jack Haldean Murder Mystery Series – approximately 1200 books make up the first print run.

There are 5 different varients of doodle:

• A vintage car
• A dancing couple
• A glass or bottle of bubbly.
• A fan
• A hammer & sickle

The books are also numbered 1-50 and double signed by the author and cover artist Ken Leeder.

About the book

It’s the height of summer 1923 and Isabelle’s parents are celebrating their Silver Wedding with a ball at their country house, Hesperus, in Sussex. Isabelle has a problem: two men, the glamorous, earnest Malcolm and the quiet, troubled Arthur are in love with her, but worry is soon replaced by tragedy. One of the guests apparently commits suicide at the ball. Jack Haldean, the hero of “A Fete Worse Than Death”, thinks it’s murder, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian Revolutionaries become involved in the affair. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnap, torture and more murder, Jack faces an agonizing choice on his journey to the truth – a journey which will change Isabelle’s life forever.

Product details

We are thrilled that new author Dolores Gordon-Smith has exclusively signed, lined, dated and doodled first edition first print books of her novel A Fete Worse than Death.

Dolores is following in the footsteps of Catriona McPherson at Constable and Robinson who has just signed a £XXXXXXXX contract with Hodder and Stoughton. We think it’s only a matter of time before a major publisher takes the series on.

This is Dolores first book in the Jack Haldean Murder Mystery Series. – 1200 books make up the first print run.

The book has just been published so to get an exclusive book before they sell out buy one today!!!

Plus why not add to the collection…..there are also 50 stamped artworks for sale.

We are thrilled that new author Dolores Gordon-Smith has exclusively signed, lined, dated and doodled first edition first print books of her novel A Fete Worse than Death.

Dolores is following in the footsteps of Catriona McPherson at Constable and Robinson who has just signed a £XXXXXXXX contract with Hodder and Stoughton. We think it’s only a matter of time before a major publisher takes the series on.

This is Dolores first book in the Jack Haldean Murder Mystery Series. – 1200 books make up the first print run.

The book has just been published so to get an exclusive book before they sell out buy one today!!!

Plus why not add to the collection…..there are also 50 stamped artworks for sale.

The book tells the story of a “very modern, very unusual hit-man whose world begins to spin out of his control”. Rejt said: “It is a totally gripping novel of dark relationships and even darker moralities.”

Mackay was born and still lives on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and he has signed, lined, dated, numbered and doodled exclusive first editions for Doodled Books collectors!

In this confident, gritty noir thriller based in gangland Glasgow, Callum is a hitman and has been hired to kill Lewis Winter.

All Callum knows is that the murder will ‘send out a message’ to someone, but the problem is that the people who have hired Callum also don’t know what the message is, or who it is for. Poor Lewis Winter is simply the first shot across the bows to persons unknown who are trying to muscle in on territory not their own. The story unfolds simply and quickly; MacKay’s writing style is sparse, fluid and fresh, giving us little more than pencil sketches of personalities and plot. But it all starts to interweave, building up a story far greater than simple stereotypes suggest.

Review
‘Cool, laconic and very enjoyable. I look forward eagerly to the second novel in the trilogy’ Allan Massie

‘I finished it almost in a sitting. The prose is spare and taut and pulls the reader into the minds of the disparate characters . . . beautifully and truthfully written with the deceptive simplicity of a fine short story’ Ann Cleeves, creator of VERA

‘A remarkably original debut . . . this is a book that it would be hard not to finish in one sitting . . . a wholly believable and unnerving portrait of organised crime’ Observer

‘The debut writer who is being hailed as tartan noir’s most authoritative and authentic new voice . . . Mackay writes in a tough-guy style that is reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett at their most hard-boiled’ Scotsman

‘Brutal, witty and well-written . . . a brilliant debut’ Sunday Telegraph

‘On the evidence of his impressive debut Malcolm Mackay will no doubt be hailed as the newest member of the Tartan Noir community. Yet the feel and style of The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter is more American than Scottish . . . a quietly absorbing gangland tale, full of moral ambiguities’ Marcel Berlins, The Times

‘The remarkable first book of a trilogy about Glasgow hit-man Calum MacLean, which will be published over the next year, this marks the debut of 31-year-old Mackay from Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides . . . His achievement is all the more stunning because drawing on his sublime imagination and innate empathy he has created a cast of characters so vivid – especially MacLean, who knows how hard it is to kill a man – that they live on in the memory long after the final page. There are Glasgow villains, bent policemen, a gangster’s moll with smarts to die for, not to mention the shabby drug-dealer Lewis Winter who has to die . . . ‘tartan noir’ will have a new star’ Daily Mail

‘From the outset Mackay’s debut makes it clear he has ambitions for this work that don’t fit the mould . . . The first of a trilogy, The Necessary Death Of Lewis Winter would seem to take its inspiration less from Scottish noir antecedents, and more from American TV series such as Dexter, The Sopranos or Breaking Bad . . . impressively controlled and confident debut . . . The Necessary Death Of Lewis Winter is unexpectedly compelling. Mackay knows how to pace a story related in a matter-of-fact manner that, in less assured hands, would become suffocatingly slow. Measuring out its excitement more like a morphine drip than a hit, the author insidiously builds up to a powerful conclusion. Whether he’s describing Calum’s last meal before the job and that of his prey or evoking the deceptively polite manners of his sinister employers, Mackay never deviates from the stony, heartless, dangerously restrained style he has set himself. It’s an audacious and risky tactic, but he pulls off his first hit with the same strong nerve and cool head his hero brings to his work’ Herald

‘Equally original is The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter…if all this tradecraft has come straight out of Mackay’s head, he’s doing a damn good impression of someone who knows what he’ talking about. This is frills-free storytelling: the prose is clinical and unadorned, the moralising minimal, the narrative linear with no mystery element and nothing kept secret from the reader. Yet Mackay ratchets up the tension like a master, and his ability to create rounded characters makes his book, despite its dark subject matter, a breath of fresh air’ Daily Telegraph
Book Description
A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target: Lewis Winter. It’s hard to kill a man well. People who do it well know this. People who do it badly find out the hard way. The hard way has consequences. An arresting, gripping novel of dark relationships and even darker moralities, The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter introduces a remarkable new voice in crime fiction. The second book in the Glasgow Trilogy How A Gunman Says Goodbye will follow soon . . .
About the Author
Malcolm Mackay was born and grew up in Stornoway where he still lives. The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, his much lauded debut, is the first in the Glasgow Trilogy, set in the city’s underworld.

Product details

• First Edition First Printing
• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Mantle (17 Jan 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 023076620X
• ISBN-13: 978-0230766204
• Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.6 x 3.6 cm