IAN AYRIS

The Blurb 'Darkness is an attribute most of us rally against. It can consume. It can achieve. But if we so choose, it can also be held at bay. Enter Bishop R...

The Blurb In the small Czech town of Vinice the mayor has been found dead in his wine cellar. Detectives Jana Dvorska and Ivan Dambersky are called to the sc...

The Blurb Mitty Andersen knows that rising blues star Bobby Tarleton didn’t die of a heroin overdose. He’d blown enough blues harmonica notes with Bobby to...

Let’s begin with the startling front cover. It took me a while, to be honest, to notice how incredibly clever it is. Two growling bears and a set of razor-sh...

With the publication of Everybody Hurts, the John Sissons Trilogy is now complete. Just as I wrote the first in the trilogy – Abide With Me – a chapter at a ...

The Review Charlie, Charlie’s dead. He’s sort of floating, looking down at himself from the ceiling at his body laying there on the operating table, his ches...

The Blurb Danny Bird is having a very bad day. In the space of just a few hours he lost his job, his partner and his home. Ever the optimist, Danny throws h...

THE BLURB Stella Radney, longtime lounge singer, still has a bullet lodged in her hip from the night when a rain of gunshots killed her husband. That was twe...

Blurb Paris. 1930. Salazar is an English detective haunted by his experiences of the Great War, who wiles away the days playing chess and taking on as litt...

Blurb We’re all lying in the gutter, but some of us are staring at the spaces between the stars... Seatown may not have a lot going for it – apart from the ...

Review Lily is a single mum, living in Vietnam. She has two children – Dunc and little Evie, and a repeated dream about her ex-husband throwing her from the ...

Arthur Upfield was an Australian novelist of the first half of the twentieth century, his central character - a detective from the CIB (Central Investigati...

I first read Apostle Rising when it was first released in 2011, having come to know Richard Godwin through his eminently disturbing short stories. If you lo...

Originally published in 2010 by Caffeine Nights, Broken Dreams was relaunched by Fahrenheit Press in October 2018. The first of Quantrill's novels featuring ...