Charlotte Carter
Rhode Island Red
Pbk published September 2001 by Serpent's Tail at £6.99
ISBN: 1852427094
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Andrew Taylor
- author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
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Lynda Ross
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Charlotte Carter
Drumsticks
Pbk published September 2001 by Serpent's Tail at £10.00
ISBN: 1852428023
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Bob Cornwell
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Stella Duffy
Fresh Flesh
Pbk published September 2001 by Serpent's Tail at £6.99
ISBN: 185242737X
Patrick Freeman, genius, celebrity chef. Chris Marquand, rich kid, successful doctor, father-to-be. Georgina Leyton, high-powered lawyer and a beautiful bitch who's as cool as they come. Matthew Godwin, nightclub entrepreneur prone to mad rages... Four virtual strangers unwittingly bound together by a dark secret from the past. And, after all this time, it's about to blow up in their faces.
This imminent bombshell is not part of Saz Martin's plan as she is taking time out her usual weird cases to prepare for her new baby with partner Molly. In fact, the timing couldn't be worse but resistance is futile, and suddenly Saz is caught up in a labyrinthine journey through the emotional ruins of the past and London's glitzy offices and so-hip-it-hurts hangouts. A bit of straightforward sleuthing and tucked up by midnight dream on, Saz.
Brilliantly interweaving suspense and humour, Fresh Flesh shows Duffy on top form as Saz is plunged headfirst into a case like no other, one which menacingly reaches into the very heart of her own life in a way she could never have imagined.
'The clever money should be on Duffy when the crime-writing Oscas are dished out' Daily Telegraph
'Cracking dialogue and exuberant characters' The Times
'Clever, cunning and careful to avoid the obvious. A real treat' Val McDermid
Stella Duffy is the author of Four Saz Martin novels, Calendar Girl, Wavewalker, Beneath The Blonde and Fresh Flesh (all Serpent's Tail) and Singling Out me Couples and Eating Cake. She also works with the comedy company, Spontaneous Combustion, and teaches improvisation to both actors and writers. She lives in London.
David Peace
Nineteen Seventy-Seven
Pbk published July 2001 by Serpent's Tail at £6.99
ISBN: 1852427442
Nineteen Seventy Seven is a blistering journey into the dark psyche of Yorkshire during the Yorkshire Ripper's notorious reign of terror.
David Peace takes us deep into a labyrinthine world of corruption
and sleaze to the hellish crimes that will irrevocably imprint themselves on the reader's imagination as they have done on the fabric of contemporary
culture. Told from the perspective of Yorkshire Post correspondent, Jack Whitehead, Nineteen Seventy Seven resonates with the stinking corruption of a brutal police force and a formidable sense of time and place.
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David Peace
Nineteen Eighty
Published July 2001 by Serpent's Tail at £15.99
ISBN: 1852426837
Nineteen Seventy Seven is a blistering journey into the dark psyche of Yorkshire during the Yorkshire Ripper's notorious reign of terror.
David Peace takes us deep into a labyrinthine world of corruption
and sleaze to the hellish crimes that will irrevocably imprint themselves on the reader's imagination as they have done on the fabric of contemporary
culture. Told from the perspective of Yorkshire Post correspondent, Jack Whitehead, Nineteen Seventy Seven resonates with the stinking corruption of a brutal police force and a formidable sense of time and place.
Daniel Evan Weiss
The Roaches Have No King
Pbk published August 2001 by Serpent's Tail at £6.99
ISBN: 1852427469
When Ira Fishblatt's girlfriend, house proud Ruth Grubstein, moves in to his apartment, he cleans up his act and his kitchen much to the repulsion of the hoards of cockroaches who also inhabit his flat. This grubby army who, up until now, had happily existed on the food debris littering his flat, now face a harsh future: eviction or death from starvation.
Driven into a frenzy by their dark fate, a leader cockroach, Numbers, devises a diabolical plan which will forever rid them of Ruth and her damnable tidiness. Enlisting the unwitting help of Rufus, the local cocaine dealer, Ira's pretty neighbour, Elizabeth, and his hot-blooded ex-girlfriend, the Gypsy, they act out a masterplan to save their home... and their lives.
A highly inventive and darkly comic tale that persuasively explores the notion of survival of the fittest from an unusual perspective.
Daniel Evan Weiss is the author of Hell On Wheels, The Swine's Wedding, Honk If You Love Aphrodite and several works of non-fiction. He lives in New York.