Ian Ayris
TAINTED VINTAGE by Clare Blanchard - a review
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...
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"I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face."
John Fante - Ask the Dust
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Ian Ayris
- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
River Bottom Blues, by Ricky Bush - a review
The Blurb Mitty Andersen knows that rising blues star Bobby Tarleton didn’t die of a heroin overdose. He’d blown enough blues harmonica...
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Ian Ayris
- Mar 11, 2020
- 2 min
SLOW BEAR by Anthony Neil Smith - a review
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...
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Ian Ayris
- Oct 22, 2019
- 1 min
Dead is Better by Jo Perry - a review
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...
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Ian Ayris
- Aug 20, 2019
- 3 min
Death of a Diva by Derek Farrell
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...
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Ian Ayris
- Jul 17, 2019
- 2 min
Know Me From Smoke by Matt Phillips
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...
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Ian Ayris
- Apr 26, 2019
- 2 min
Review - A Citizen of Nowhere by Seth Lynch
Blurb Paris. 1930. Salazar is an English detective haunted by his experiences of the Great War, who wiles away the days playing chess...
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Ian Ayris
- Apr 17, 2019
- 2 min
Review - Kill Me Quick by Paul D. Brazill
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...
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Ian Ayris
- Apr 11, 2019
- 2 min
Review - Saigon Dark by Elka Ray
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...
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Ian Ayris
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
Classic Review: The Widows of Broome by Arthur Upfield
Arthur Upfield was an Australian novelist of the first half of the twentieth century, his central character - a detective from the CIB ...
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Ian Ayris
- Apr 7, 2019
- 2 min
Resurrected Review - Apostle Rising by Richard Godwin
I first read Apostle Rising when it was first released in 2011, having come to know Richard Godwin through his eminently disturbing short...
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Ian Ayris
- Mar 31, 2019
- 2 min
Resurrected Review - Broken Dreams by Nick Quantrill
Originally published in 2010 by Caffeine Nights, Broken Dreams was relaunched by Fahrenheit Press in October 2018. The first of...
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