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    • One Man's Opinion: CUDDY by BENJAMIN MYERS
      Just over twenty years ago, my wife and I took on St Cuthbert's Way. Though time fades the memories, they're still there. I left my book of short stories in Melrose Youth Hostel where we kicked things off with a short bus ride. We got lost on the way to Wooler Youth Hostel and added […]
    • MR SUIT Running Free
      Mr Suit gets an outing today. Free for two days over at Amazon if you have access to Kindle. Liza is at the end of her tether. The only way she can see out of her situation is to turn to her husband's ex-boss, the gangster Mr Suit.In doing so, she sets in motion a chain […]
    • BLAH BLAH BLAH by LONG HAT PINS
       For me, the title is reminiscent of one of my old favourites, Nag Nag Nag by Caberet Voltaire. If that means something to you, you should definitely be checking out Blah Blah Blah, the new tunes from Long Hat Pins. If it doesn't, you should also definitely be checking out Blah Blah Blah, the new […]
    • Meanwhile, Down In the Shallows...
       The Shallows is free today and this weekend if you fancy a distraction from the coronation. It's here for the US and here for the UK. Here's what Ian Ayris said:The Shallows is equally, an excellent piece. It displays Bird's usual quality of prose - tight, yet always poetic - a very hard trick to pull off. […]
    • One Man's Opinion: THE GIRL WITH THE LONG GREEN HEART by LAWRENCE BLOCK
      It's been a while since I've read anything by Lawrence Block. Long enough to forget just how brilliant he is as a writer. The Girl With The Long Green Heart (US) is a grifter novel that is perfectly pitched. One of those reads when you carry a terrible feeling that everything is going to go wrong. You […]
    • One Man's Opinion: STORMY WEATHER by CARL HIAASEN
      A hurricane hits Florida. While there's tragedy everywhere, there are pockets of unusual thinking and strange behaviour. A one-eyed man of the wild is hoping the storm will be the biggest on record. A man on honeymoon would rather take film of the victims than spend time with his new wife. A skull-juggler feels the […]
    • One Man's Opinion: FOR KICKS by DICK FRANCIS
      It's my own fault, really. A week in France and I had my Ed McBain for the flight over, followed by a substantial looking Michael Chabon (Telegraph Avenue) for which I had high hopes (The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay being a big favourite of mine). It turned out that I developed an aversion for […]
    • One Man's Opinion: FUZZ by ED McBAIN
      Following a series is an interesting thing. I think you build a sense of loyalty to an author and a set of characters that softens the critical eye. That's particularly the case when a series has a lot of entries. The 87th Precinct books were published between 1956 and 2005 and there aren't many that […]
    • One Man's Opinion: EIGHTY MILLION EYES by ED McBAIN
      It was so good to be back with the 87th that after reading Doll, I couldn't resist Eighty Million Eyes. Now I'm done with Eighty Million Eyes, I couldn't resist and so I'm reading Fuzz. After that, I'll need a break- I don't want to get through all the books any time soon, so I'll […]
    • One Man's Opinion: DOLL by ED McBAIN
       I'm sure that in one of my more recent 87th Precinct reviews, I mentioned that I was distressed by the increasing bitterness and hard-heartedness of Bert Kling. In Doll, it's got to the point where Lieutenant Byrnes has had enough of Kling's style of policing; he's a bad apple and the mood and performance of […]

    Month: May 2017

    Free Book Friday

    A week to go until I have the honour of introducing Christopher Brookmyre at the Coastword festival and I’m giving away books to celebrate.

    You can download copies of

    The Shallows

    Southsiders #1 – That’s All Right

    Southsiders #2 – Jailhouse Rock

    and

    Beat On The Brat (and other stories) 

    by following the links.

    Please enjoy.

    Maybe see you on Saturday.

    Posted on May 12, 2017Leave a comment on Free Book Friday
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