New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Serpent's Tail
07 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Serpent's Tail
OCT-DEC 07
James E Cherry
Shadow of Light
Pbk published October 2007 by Serpent's Tail at £8.99
ISBN: 1852424923
The festering racial tensions in a Tennessee backwater town called Forrest come to the boil after a black grandmother is raped and shot by a gang of white teenagers. Only one man has the capacity to keep a lid on the mounting violence and that's the town's senior black cop, Walter Robinson. Only trouble is Walter's own life isn't in great shape: his constant infidelities are wrecking his marriage, and his nephew Cebo is the street druglord who's leading the charge to take revenge on the whites. This is a two-fisted portrayal of the New South as it really is - riven by poverty, drugs and racism, but still struggling towards a better future. In "Shadow of Light", James E. Cherry reports back from America's Internal frontline. Ronny met her in full stride, grabbed her around the neck and shoved her against the kitchen sink. Her throat palpitating in his hands felt like the supple body of the gray pigeon he'd held once when he was ten years old before smashing it in the head with a baseball bat. He stared through her oblivious to the gurgling noises emanating from her throat, blue eyes bulging with red veins and the purpleness of her complexion growing in proportion to the increased intensity of his strength. For the second time in less than twenty four hours, he held the power of life and death in his hands.
James E. Cherry is a southern-born black man. He experienced a spiritual, mental and cultural awakening in his mid-twenties, which inspired him to become a writer. Shadow of Light is his first novel.
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Maxim Jakubowski
Paris Noir (City Noir 2)
Pbk published November 2007 by Serpent's Tail at £8.99
ISBN: 1852429666
"Paris Noir" is a collection of new stories about the dark side of Paris, with contributions by leading French, British and American authors who have all either lived or spent a significant amount of time in Paris.
Edited by Maxim Jakubowski, the stories range from quietly menacing to spectacularly violent, and include contributions from some of the most famous crime writers from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as the other side of the Channel.
Maxim Jakubowski owns London's Murder One mystery bookshop. He was the editor of the Black Box and Blue Murder imprints.
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Robert Lewis
Swansea Terminal
Pbk published November 2007 by Serpent's Tail at £7.99
ISBN: 1852429755
"Swansea Terminal" is the sequel to Robert's Lewis acclaimed debut, "The Last Llanelli Train". Readers of the earlier novel may be surprised to discover that a sequel exists: after all P.I. Robin Llewellyn ended the first book as a terminal alcoholic pursued by killers. Well, he's back, but only just: as "Swansea Terminal" opens, Robin is homeless in Swansea, just another dosser intent on drinking himself into an early grave. He doesn't look in any state to stagger through another crime caper as twisted as "The Last Llanelli Train" - but stagger through it he does. After all, Robin is the perfect patsy, and before long Swansea's dodgiest gangsters have found him a job - one only a chronic alcoholic with nothing to lose would be crazy enough to take. Every bit as dark, funny and oddly poignant as "The Last Llanelli Train", this is new British crime fiction at its very finest.
Robert Lewis is from the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons. Now twenty-seven, he has just graduated as a mature student from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Jonathan Trigell
Cham
Pbk published October 2007 by Serpent's Tail at £10.99
ISBN: 1852429585
The Beach on ice: deep powder, dead poets and moral free-fall in the death-sport capital of the world. Long-dead Lord Byron started it. He was the rock star of his age, but also a poet with about as much relevance to the blood grudge struggle that marks modern life for most of humanity as he has to the practice of sliding down snowy slopes on planks of wood. And yet, it was thanks to Byron that Itchy ended up living in Chamonix Mont Blanc, the death-sport capital of the world, among the high mountains and low morals. In the intervening years, he has tried hard with alcohol and adrenaline to numb a past he can't atone for. Now a serial rapist is stalking Cham's tourist-thronged streets, haunting the same shadows as Itchy and triggering an obsession which will lead him far from Europe's zenith, to the depths of the valley and himself. This is a striking evocation of a world where the reckless violence of a callow man's life comes back to haunt him. This work is presented by the author of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize-winner "Boy A". It is exhilarating and action-packed, with all the psychological acuity of "Boy A". It provides widespread review coverage in men's magazines and national press. 'The first time Itchy came here even the road up was like a call to arms. It's raised on great soaring stone pillars, which look like they were looted from the Titans, but it feels as if it was made before even those pregods. As if it surged from the centre of the earth with the same unfathomable energy that forced up the crag-ragged ridges on either side. Chamonix is indeed a mythical place, a mystical place: where civilisation confronted the wilderness and for once they agreed to differ; undefeated; the undisputed free-ride capital; the death-sport centre of the world. All of the first mountains ever assailed were climbed from here. The history of Alpinism itself is a history of Cham. Chamonix is where it all began.'
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