Katrina Marino is about to become America’s most infamous murder victim.
This is Katrina’s story, and the story of her killer.
It is also the story of Katrina’s neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam draftee; the woman who thinks she’s killed a child, and her husband who will risk everything for the truth; the former soldier planning suicide and the man who saves him. And others whose lives are touched by the crime: the elderly teacher whose past is catching up with him; the amateur blackmailer who’s about to find out just what sort of people he’s been threatening; the corrupt cop who believes he is God’s ‘red right hand’.
Shocking and compassionate, angry and gripping, ACTS OF VIOLENCE is a sprawling, cinematic tour-de-force, a terrifying crime novel unlike any other.

Acts of Violence (Macmillan New Writing)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ryan David Jahn

Thrillers & Suspense

Macmillan New Writing

When Simon Johnson is attacked in his crummy LA apartment, he knows he must defend himself or die. Turning on the lights after the scuffle, Simon realises two things: one, he has killed his attacker; two, the resemblance of the man to himself is uncanny.
Over the coming days, Simon’s lonely life will spiral out of control. With his pet goldfish Francine in tow, he embarks on a gripping existential investigation, into his own murky past, and that of Jeremy Shackleford, the (apparently) happily married math teacher whose body is now lying in Simon’s bathtub under forty gallons of ice.
But Simon has a plan. Gradually, he begins to assume the dead man’s identity, fooling Shackleford’s colleagues, and even his beautiful wife. However, when mysterious messages appear on the walls around Simon’s apartment, he realises that losing his old self will be more difficult than he’d imagined. Everything points to a long forgotten date the previous spring, when his life and Shackleford’s first collided. As the contradictions mount, and the ice begins to melt, the events of the past year will resolve themselves in the most catastrophic way.
Combining gritty noir, psychological drama and dazzling plotting, Low Life is a shocking novel that announces Jahn as a brilliant new voice of modern America.

Low Life

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Macmillan

From the author of the award-winning debut crime novel Good  Neighbors-a white-knuckle thriller about the lengths a man will go  to for his daughter.  The phone rings. It's your daughter. She's been dead for four  months. So begins East Texas police dispatcher Ian Hunt's fight to get his  daughter back. The call is cut off by the man who snatched her from her  bedroom seven years ago, and a basic description of the kidnapper is  all Ian has to go on. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country  chase from Texas to California along Interstate 10- a wild ride in a  1965 Mustang that passes through the outlaw territory of No Country  for Old Men and is shot through with moments of macabre violence  that call to mind the novels of Thomas Harris.

The Dispatcher

Genre Fiction

Pan Books

At 4:00 A.M. on March 13, 1964, a young woman returning home from her shift at a local bar is attacked in the courtyard of her Queens apartment building. Her neighbors hear her cries; no one calls for help.    Unfolding over the course of the two hours, Good Neighbors is the story of the woman's last night. It is also the story of her neighbors, the bystanders who kept to themselves: the anxious Vietnam draftee; the former soldier planning suicide; the woman who thinks she's killed a child; and her husband, who will risk everything for her. Revealing a fascinating cross-section of American society in expertly interlocking plotlines, Good Neighbors calls to mind the Oscar-winning movie Crash, and its suspense and profound sense of urban menace rank it with Hitchcock's Rear Window and the gritty crime novels of Dennis Lehane, Richard Price, and James Ellroy.

Acts Of Violence

Ulverscroft

Good Neighbors a Novel

Literary

Penguin??Books

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