ISBN13: 978-0-9725776-6-3
DeKok and Murder by Melody
“Death is entitled to our respect,” says Inspector DeKok, who finds himself once again amidst dark dealings. A triple murder in the Amsterdam Concert Gebouw has him unveiling the truth behind two dead ex-junkies and their housekeeper.
ISBN13: 978-0-9725776-9-4
DeKok and the Death of a Clown
A high-stakes jewel theft and a dead clown blend into a single riddle for Inspector DeKok to solve. The connection of the crimes at first eludes him
ISBN13: 978-1-933108-03-2
DeKok and Variations on Murder
During one of her nightly rounds, housekeeper Mrs. van Hasbergen finds a company president dead in his boardroom. She rushes up to her apartment to call someone, but who? Deciding it better to return to the boardroom, she finds the dead man gone.
ISBN13: 978-1-933108-04-9
DeKok and Murder by Installment
Although at first it seemed to be a case for the narcotics division, this latest investigation soon evolves into a series of sinister murders involving drug smuggling and child prostitution
ISBN13: 978-1-933108-07-0
Boost
by Steve Brewer
Sam Hill steals cars. Not just any cars, but collectible cars, rare works of automotive artistry. Sam’s a specialist, and he’s made a good life for himself.
But things change after he steals a primo 1965 Thunderbird. In the trunk, Sam finds a corpse, a police informant with a bullet hole between his eyes. Somebody set Sam up. Played a trick on him. And Sam, a prankster himself, can’t let it go. He must get his revenge with an even bigger practical joke, one that soon has gangsters gunning for him and police on his tail.
“…entertaining, amusing…. This tightly plotted crime novel packs in a lot of action as it briskly moves along.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Brewer earns four stars for a clever plot, totally engaging characters, and a pay-back ending….”
—Mystery Scene
ISBN13: 978-1-933108-02-5
Killing Neptune’s Daughter
by Randall Peffer
Returning to his hometown was something Billy Bagwell always dreaded. But he felt he owed it to Tina, the object of his childhood sexual obsession, to see her off properly. Even in death she could seduce him to her. Upon his return to Wood’s Hole on Cape Cod, Billy’s past with his old friends—especially his best friend, present-day Catholic priest Zal—floods his mind with classic machismo and rite-of-passage boyhood events. But some of their moments were a bit darker, and all seemed to revolve around or involve Tina…moments that Billy didn’t want to remember.
This psycho-thriller carries Billy deeper and deeper into long-repressed memories of thirty-five-year-old crimes. As the days grow darker, Billy finds himself caught in a turbulent tide of past homoerotic encounters, lost innocence, rage, religion, and lust.
“…the perfect book for those who fancy the darker, grittier side of mystery. A hit-you-in-the-guts psychothriller, this is a compelling story of one man’s search for truth and inner peace.”
—Mystery Scene
ISBN13: 978-1-933108-05-6
Nick Madrid Mysteries
by Peter Guttridge
No Laughing Matter
Tom Sharpe meets Raymond Chandler in this humorous and brilliant debut. Meet Nick Madrid and the “Bitch of the Broadsheets,” Bridget Frost, as they trail a killer from Montreal to Edinburgh to the ghastly lights of Hollywood.
ISBN13: 978-0-9725776-4-9
A Ghost of a Chance
New Age meets the Old Religion as Nick is bothered and bewildered by pagans, satanists, and metaphysicians. Seances, sabbats, a horse ride from hell, and a kickboxing zebra all come Nick’s way as he tracks a treasure once in the possession of Aleister Crowley.
ISBN13: 978-0-9725776-8-7
Two to Tango
On a trip down the Amazon, journalist Nick Madrid survives kidnapping, piranhas, and urine-loving fish that lodge where a man least wants one lodged. After those heroics, Nick joins up with a Rock Against Drugs tour where he finds himself tracking down the would-be killer of the tour’s pain-in-the-posterior headliner.
ISBN13: 978-1-933108-00-1
The Once and Future Con
Avalon theme parks and medieval Excaliburger banquets are the last things journalist Nick Madrid expects to find when he arrives at what is supposedly the grave of the legendary King Arthur. As Nick starts to dig around for an understanding, it isn’t Arthurian relics, but murder victims that he uncovers.
ISBN13: 978-1-933108-06-3
Peter Guttridge is the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Southampton University and teaches creative writing. Between 1998 and 2002 he was the director of the Brighton Literature Festival. As a freelance journalist he has written about literature, film, and comedy for a range of British newspapers and magazines. Since 1998 he has been the mystery reviewer for The Observer, one of Britain’s most prestigious Sunday newspapers. He also writes about—and doggedly practices—astanga vinyasa yoga.
Praise for the Nick Madrid Mysteries
“Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal, starred review
“…I couldn’t put it down. This is classic Guttridge, with all the humor I’ve come to expect from the series. Nick is a treasure, and Bridget a good foil to his good nature.”
—Deadly Pleasures
“Guttridge’s series is among the funniest and sharpest in the genre, with a level of intelligence often lacking in better-known fare.”
—Baltimore Sun
“…one of the most engaging novels of 2005. Highly entertaining…this is humor wonderfully combined with mystery.”
—Foreword
“…Peter Guttridge is off to a rousing start…a serious contender in the mystery genre.”
—Chicago Tribune
“[The] Nick Madrid mysteries are nothing if not addictively, insanely entertaining…but what’s really important is the mix of good suspense, fast-and-furious one-liners and impeccable slapstick.”
—Ruminator
“…both funny and clever. This is one of the funniest mysteries to come along in quite a while.”
—Mystery Scene
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