My Bullet Sweetly Sings
by Russell James
Price: $1.99 USD. 86620 words.
Published on December 27, 2011. Fiction.
Tim Hawk is young, virginal – and a hit-man. But he is obsessed by baroque opera – Handel, Telemann and Purcell. His employer, Alexei Kazan, born Ukrainian but now a leading London gangster, returns from the Ukraine with a new bride-to-be – beautiful, naive and vulnerable – and as Kazan’s marriage and criminal empire are undermined, the doomed trio rush to a violent and operatic climax.
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Russell James
Biography
Russell is a British writer, ex-Chairman of the Crime Writers Association, and author of twelve novels, crime and historical, the latest of which, The Maud Allan Affair, culminated in the shocking Old Bailey trial of 1919. Most of his hard-hitting, low-life thrillers are set in south east London and, unusually, they feature no detectives; when the police do appear it is on the sidelines.
He has also published 4 illustrated biographical encyclopaedias: Great British Fictional Detectives and its companion work, Great British Fictional Villains, followed by the Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers & Poets, which was published for winter 2010, and the Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models, which was published in March 2011.
His books include:
POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN ARTISTS & MODELS (Pen & Sword)
POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN WRITERS & POETS (Pen & Sword)
GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL VILLAINS (Pen & Sword)
GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL DETECTIVES (Pen & Sword)
THE MAUD ALLAN AFFAIR (Pen & Sword)
MY BULLET SWEETLY SINGS (Prospero)
REQUIEM FOR A DAUGHTER (Prospero)
NO ONE GETS HURT (Do Not Press)
PICK ANY TITLE (Do Not Press)
THE ANNEX (Five Star Mysteries)
PAINTING IN THE DARK (Do Not Press)
OH NO, NOT MY BABY (Do Not Press)
COUNT ME OUT (Serpent's Tail)
SLAUGHTER MUSIC (Alison & Busby)
PAYBACK (Gollancz)
DAYLIGHT (Gollancz)
UNDERGROUND (Gollancz)
He has also published 4 illustrated biographical encyclopaedias: Great British Fictional Detectives and its companion work, Great British Fictional Villains, followed by the Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers & Poets, which was published for winter 2010, and the Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models, which was published in March 2011.
His books include:
POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN ARTISTS & MODELS (Pen & Sword)
POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN WRITERS & POETS (Pen & Sword)
GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL VILLAINS (Pen & Sword)
GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL DETECTIVES (Pen & Sword)
THE MAUD ALLAN AFFAIR (Pen & Sword)
MY BULLET SWEETLY SINGS (Prospero)
REQUIEM FOR A DAUGHTER (Prospero)
NO ONE GETS HURT (Do Not Press)
PICK ANY TITLE (Do Not Press)
THE ANNEX (Five Star Mysteries)
PAINTING IN THE DARK (Do Not Press)
OH NO, NOT MY BABY (Do Not Press)
COUNT ME OUT (Serpent's Tail)
SLAUGHTER MUSIC (Alison & Busby)
PAYBACK (Gollancz)
DAYLIGHT (Gollancz)
UNDERGROUND (Gollancz)
Where to find Russell James online
Website: http://russelljamesbooks.wordpress.com
Twitter: getrusselljames
Blog: http://booksmatter.wordpress.com
Twitter: getrusselljames
- getRussellJames: @colinwatts A day later it's still slow (and has been for over a week) with no word of it from the Beeb. iPlayer is almost immobile.
- getRussellJames: How does a writer start their working day? http://t.co/v3amq7sc
- getRussellJames: @Beathhigh Modern technology: it runs just like clockwork.
- getRussellJames: How do crime writers tackle their every working day? Not quite all is revealed: http://t.co/NqKrIEIChow-to-write-a-damn-good-novel/
- getRussellJames: What is the #ebook #self-published author’s credo? See http://t.co/NqKrIEIC
Blog: http://booksmatter.wordpress.com
Where to buy in print
Books
Count Me Out
by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 98980 words. Published on March 26, 2011. Fiction.
Jet Heywood stars in Britain’s last fairground boxing booth and lives for his little daughter. His brother Scott is a security van driver, sick of his boring life, who agrees to help in a banknote heist – then disappears with the money. Scott’s gang think Jet knows where he is. They’ll pressurise him and, if that fails, they’ll take his daughter. But Jet’s no pushover.
Price: $2.99 USD. 98980 words. Published on March 26, 2011. Fiction.
Jet Heywood stars in Britain’s last fairground boxing booth and lives for his little daughter. His brother Scott is a security van driver, sick of his boring life, who agrees to help in a banknote heist – then disappears with the money. Scott’s gang think Jet knows where he is. They’ll pressurise him and, if that fails, they’ll take his daughter. But Jet’s no pushover.
Painting in the Dark
by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 117070 words. Published on March 10, 2011. Fiction.
'His masterpiece to date,' said the Guardian. An old woman has dark secrets in her past, when she and her sister were intimates of Hitler & Goering. During the 1997 Election, as Tony Blair sweeps to power, art dealer Gottleisch and his evil helper Ticky think she has hoarded her sister’s valuable paintings. They're determined to get them, whatever it takes. 'Exceptional,' said Booklist.
Price: $2.99 USD. 117070 words. Published on March 10, 2011. Fiction.
'His masterpiece to date,' said the Guardian. An old woman has dark secrets in her past, when she and her sister were intimates of Hitler & Goering. During the 1997 Election, as Tony Blair sweeps to power, art dealer Gottleisch and his evil helper Ticky think she has hoarded her sister’s valuable paintings. They're determined to get them, whatever it takes. 'Exceptional,' said Booklist.
Pick Any Title
by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 104830 words. Published on March 2, 2011. Fiction.
In this black comedy ‘Lord Clive’ inveigles Jane Strachey into helping him sell British ‘Lord of the Manor’ titles to Americans. Among his gulls are a shrewd businessman, a hell-fire preacher and a New York gangster. When lawyers pounce and guns start to fire, Strachey finds she need more than good looks and smart words to save her skin. ‘A brilliant page-turner,’ said the Times.
Price: $2.99 USD. 104830 words. Published on March 2, 2011. Fiction.
In this black comedy ‘Lord Clive’ inveigles Jane Strachey into helping him sell British ‘Lord of the Manor’ titles to Americans. Among his gulls are a shrewd businessman, a hell-fire preacher and a New York gangster. When lawyers pounce and guns start to fire, Strachey finds she need more than good looks and smart words to save her skin. ‘A brilliant page-turner,’ said the Times.
Requiem for a Daughter
by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 95100 words. Published on March 2, 2011. Fiction.
Police Firearms Officers Tom and Abi are in trouble. Tom’s wife has shacked up with a dodgy Russian billionaire, a developer for the London Olympics, 2012 – and Tom’s daughter has been kidnapped. The billionaire won’t pay, he says, he’ll fight. Meanwhile, a deadly mistake has put Abi’s job on the line. Who can put things right? First in the Tom Fortune and Abi Wilde series.
Price: $2.99 USD. 95100 words. Published on March 2, 2011. Fiction.
Police Firearms Officers Tom and Abi are in trouble. Tom’s wife has shacked up with a dodgy Russian billionaire, a developer for the London Olympics, 2012 – and Tom’s daughter has been kidnapped. The billionaire won’t pay, he says, he’ll fight. Meanwhile, a deadly mistake has put Abi’s job on the line. Who can put things right? First in the Tom Fortune and Abi Wilde series.
Underground
by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 79830 words. Published on February 12, 2011. Fiction.
Reissue of the first book from the British crime writer whom Ian Rankin would later call 'The Godfather of British Noir'. The hero of this tense thriller has been lying low in the urban decay of south-east London, waiting to be called on for his 'job'. Is he a crook or a terrorist? What is he about to do? 'Britain seen through a gun-sight,' said the Literary Review.
Price: $2.99 USD. 79830 words. Published on February 12, 2011. Fiction.
Reissue of the first book from the British crime writer whom Ian Rankin would later call 'The Godfather of British Noir'. The hero of this tense thriller has been lying low in the urban decay of south-east London, waiting to be called on for his 'job'. Is he a crook or a terrorist? What is he about to do? 'Britain seen through a gun-sight,' said the Literary Review.
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