Steve Brewer stirs up his usual potent mix of high crime and low comedy in this rollicking novel where the criminals are the good guys. Sam Hill's a specialist. He steals cars, not just any car but collectible classics. Things change when he steals a 1965 Thunderbird. In the trunk he finds the corpse of a police informant with a bullet though his head. Then the police are swarming the garage where he planned to deliver the motor. Somebody's set Sam up and being a prankster himself, he's determined to find out who it is and take revenge with an even bigger practical joke.

Sam Hill steals cars. Not just any cars, but collectible cars, works of automobile artistry. Sam's a specialist and he's made a good life for himself. But things change the night he steals a lawyer's 1965 Thunderbird because he finds a corpse in the trunk, a police informant with a bullet hole between the eyes. Things get worse when he learns that the cops are swarming all over the garage where he intended to deliver the T-bird. Somebody set Sam up. And Sam can't let it go. He must find whoever framed him and get his revenge with an even bigger "practical joke." But he soon has both the police and gangsters gunning for him. After using his own resourcefulness and the help of his two friends it becomes apparent who was behind the set up and why he was targeted. It appears as though Sam stole a car from Phil Ortiz, a notorious drug dealer and car collector. Thus begins a game of constant one-upmanship with each round raising the stakes higher and higher. Finally, it is clear that Ortiz won't quit until he has had the last laugh and Sam Hill is dead. In Boost, Steve Brewer stirs up his usual potent mixture of high crime and low comedy in a rollicking novel where the car thieves are the good guys and the action never stops.

Tom Sharpe meets Raymond Chandler in this humorous and brilliant debut that will keep you on a knife edge of suspense. When a naked woman flashes past Nick Madrid's hotel window in Montreal it's quite a surprise - not only is he on the fourteenth floor but there isn't an outside lift. The management is horrified when she lands in the swimming pool - not only is she dead but she makes a real mess of the shallow end. This new reprint of Guttridge's hilarious crime caper will delight his existing fans and win him many more.

When a naked women flashes past Nick Madrid's hotel window, it's quite a surprise. For Nick's room is on the fourteenth floor. The management is horrified when Cissie Parker lands in the swimming pool - not only is she killed, but she makes a real mess of the shallow end. In Montreal to cover the Just For Laughs festival, Nick, a journalist, turns gumshoe to answer the question: did she fall or was she pushed? The trail leads Nick to the mean streets of Edinburgh, then to Los Angeles, where the truth lurks among the dark secrets of Hollywood.

Detective Lauriant, a cynical, yet compassionate investigator who always gets his man, is back with two murder mysteries rolled into one volume. In A Dead Man's Morning, Detective Lauriant's search for the truth leads him to explore contrasting worlds, uncover an unresolved past and question the motives of his own friends. In The Sins of the Fathers, Lauriant investigates the death of a general that places him in danger - danger that can only be overcome if he can break from the sinister world of bitter rivalries and deceit, and live by his own terms.