Iain Ryan

ENTER THE SPIRAL. FIND THE TRUTH. The utterly original and brilliantly gripping thriller for fans of BEHIND HER EYES by Sarah Pinborough and THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE by Stuart Turton. 'Gripping, inventive and utterly unpredictable' - Alex Pavesi, bestselling author of EIGHT DETECTIVES. 'Ambitious and well executed' - GUARDIAN '[A] rollercoaster crime noir thriller' - INDEPENDENT _______________________ Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice in a targetted attack by a colleague, her quiet existence is shattered in an instant. With her would-be murderer dead, no one can give Erma the answers she needs to move on from her trauma. Why her? Why now? So begins Erma's quest for the truth - and a dangerous, spiralling journey into the heart of darkness. With all the inventiveness of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and the raw brutality of Mulholland Drive, THE SPIRAL is a unique crime thriller with killer twists - and 2021's most jaw-dropping ending. ____________________ WHAT YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE SPIRAL: 'I suspect this is one that I'll be thinking about for some time' - ALEX PAVESI, author of EIGHT DETECTIVES 'A frenzied, twisted fever dream of a book' - MIRANDA DICKINSON, author of OUR STORY

The gripping and utterly unpredictable thriller

The Spiral

Jim Harris is a hard-drinking Australian detective on his way to a nervous breakdown. Tasked with solving the brutal murder of a local prostitute, Harris soon discovers that his case leads back to his own indiscretions, and to the dangerous policemen around him. Alone, afraid and out-of-control, Harris makes a suicide pact with himself: four days to find the killer, four days to take justice into his own hands and four days to gain redemption. For mature audiences only.

A Tunnel Island Mystery

Four Days

Ian Rogers (Author)

A high-paced, hardboiled regional noir: fresh, gritty, unnerving, with a stark and lonely beauty. Do bad people look like good people, like friends and brothers and boyfriends and students, until they have their hands around your throat? All of these men standing around me, drinks in hand, backs to this screen� smiling, laughing, flirting, and they look harmless. But any one of them could be something else now: rapist, murdered, spree shooter, torturer, paedophile. I try to picture them sprayed with blood and gore and its easy. I can do it, mentally. All of these guys could be him because all of these guys were just like him, right up until he� Gatton, Queensland. 1994. Nate is a student, dealing weed on the side. A girl called Maya Kibby is dead. No one knows who killed her. Nate needs to refresh his supply, but Jesse, his friend and dealer, is missing. Nate is high. He is alone. Being hunted for the suitcase he has found and haunted by its contents. And as things turn from bad to worse, Nate uncovers far more than he bargained for.

The Student

Kim Walker

Ryan K. Lindsay

Crime Factory

Aaron Fox-lerner

BUY IT IN PRINT AND GET THE KINDLE FREE! The seventeenth issue of the Crime Factory noir journal. Swollen with fiction, articles, interviews, reviews and more. Long fiction by The Horror Show (film) and Gleaming Spires frontman, Les Bohem. True crime reportage by Kim Walker. Interviews with Cold Shot to the Heart author Wallace Stroby; and Rhymes For Young Ghouls writer/director Jeff Barnaby. Fiction by Jen Conley; Matthew Asprey; Carmen Jaramillo; Aaron Fox-Lerner; Iain Ryan; Max Sheridan; Josh Gray; Hugh Lessig and Eddie McNamara. Reportage on a night with Perfidia and L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy by Gilbert Colon. Benjamin Welton gives an appreciation of the Krimi films of the 1960s. An appreciation of Fletch by Ryan K. Lindsay. CF editor L. Scott Jose shares his personal experience of real life crime. Plus reviews from the usual miscreants and players. Read it, if it were a magazine, it'd read you.

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