Rafael's Gold
by Russell James
Price: $3.49 USD. 106240 words.
Published on March 29, 2013. Fiction.
Will the film crew discover sunken gold? Will the film star lose to her rival? If they find gold, who will be left alive to share it? Alongside the story of their quest is a tale from the Spanish Armada itself, a tale of love and tragedy, revealed in documents from the time.
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Russell James
Biography
Russell is a British writer, ex-Chairman of the Crime Writers Association, and author of a dozen and a half novels, crime and historical.
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, and its companion, the Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models.
His books include:
RAFAEL'S GOLD (Prospero)
THE EXHIBITIONISTS (G-Press)
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, and its companion, the Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models.
His books include:
RAFAEL'S GOLD (Prospero)
THE EXHIBITIONISTS (G-Press)
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
Blog: http://booksmatter.wordpress.com
Where to buy in print
Books
No One Gets Hurt
by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 113010 words. Published on July 2, 2012. Fiction.
Kirsty Rice is a video journalist whose friend died in the 'harmless' sex industry. After a break-up with a fellow journalist Kirsty is pregnant – and as she worms her way in with the pornographers she finds that he is close to them. They have him on film. Now they have a little job for Kirsty. It's perfectly simple: play things their way, do this one little thing – and no one will get hurt.
Price: $2.99 USD. 113010 words. Published on July 2, 2012. Fiction.
Kirsty Rice is a video journalist whose friend died in the 'harmless' sex industry. After a break-up with a fellow journalist Kirsty is pregnant – and as she worms her way in with the pornographers she finds that he is close to them. They have him on film. Now they have a little job for Kirsty. It's perfectly simple: play things their way, do this one little thing – and no one will get hurt.
The Annex
by Russell James
Price: $4.99 USD. 59230 words. Published on May 7, 2012. Fiction.
A modern take on one of the most notorious Jacobean tragedies, Thomas Middleton’s, The Changeling, brought up to date in present-day England. This violent and sexy version homes in on the basic plot of an older man losing his luscious new wife to a virile young blood. Praised by Library Journal and Publishers’ Weekly.
Price: $4.99 USD. 59230 words. Published on May 7, 2012. Fiction.
A modern take on one of the most notorious Jacobean tragedies, Thomas Middleton’s, The Changeling, brought up to date in present-day England. This violent and sexy version homes in on the basic plot of an older man losing his luscious new wife to a virile young blood. Praised by Library Journal and Publishers’ Weekly.
Lost
by Russell James
Price: $0.99 USD. 14610 words. Published on March 29, 2012. Fiction.
Two crime stories from the man Ian Rankin once called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’, early stories from the years when Russell James was establishing himself as ‘one of the best of Britain’s darker crime writers’ (as the Times called him). The first is the author’s only crime story to feature a detective, and the second, although a tale of prison life, is in lighter vein.
Price: $0.99 USD. 14610 words. Published on March 29, 2012. Fiction.
Two crime stories from the man Ian Rankin once called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’, early stories from the years when Russell James was establishing himself as ‘one of the best of Britain’s darker crime writers’ (as the Times called him). The first is the author’s only crime story to feature a detective, and the second, although a tale of prison life, is in lighter vein.
The Break
by Russell James
Price: $0.99 USD. 19610 words. Published on March 17, 2012. Fiction.
Paul’s life is ordinary, until the night he stops his car to take a walk, Stumbling into – and hoping to avoid – a domestic affray, he finds himself the reluctant guardian to a homeless young woman and her shabbily-dressed child. It’s late. Where can they go? Paul has access to a boat moored on the Thames. They’ll be safe there, won’t they?
Price: $0.99 USD. 19610 words. Published on March 17, 2012. Fiction.
Paul’s life is ordinary, until the night he stops his car to take a walk, Stumbling into – and hoping to avoid – a domestic affray, he finds himself the reluctant guardian to a homeless young woman and her shabbily-dressed child. It’s late. Where can they go? Paul has access to a boat moored on the Thames. They’ll be safe there, won’t they?
Brace Yourself
by Russell James
Price: $0.99 USD. 10090 words. Published on March 17, 2012. Fiction.
Betrayal and murder at a country house shooting party. When this story appeared in a characteristically yellow and black Victor Gollancz anthology, 'Crime Yellow', the Times review picked it out as ‘a splendid country house shocker from Russell James’.
Price: $0.99 USD. 10090 words. Published on March 17, 2012. Fiction.
Betrayal and murder at a country house shooting party. When this story appeared in a characteristically yellow and black Victor Gollancz anthology, 'Crime Yellow', the Times review picked it out as ‘a splendid country house shocker from Russell James’.
Terri's Tales
by Russell James
Price: $0.99 USD. 11570 words. Published on March 15, 2012. Fiction.
Two crime stories from the man Ian Rankin once called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’. These are early stories from the years when Russell James was establishing himself as ‘one of the best of Britain’s darker crime writers’ (as the Times called him). They tell of the young woman Terri and her hard-scrabble existence in south London among criminals and hard types.
Price: $0.99 USD. 11570 words. Published on March 15, 2012. Fiction.
Two crime stories from the man Ian Rankin once called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’. These are early stories from the years when Russell James was establishing himself as ‘one of the best of Britain’s darker crime writers’ (as the Times called him). They tell of the young woman Terri and her hard-scrabble existence in south London among criminals and hard types.
My Bullet Sweetly Sings
by Russell James
Price: $1.99 USD. 86650 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.
Price: $1.99 USD. 86650 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.
The London Sextet
by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 64290 words. Published on October 21, 2011. Fiction.
An original collection of six stories from the writer Ian Rankin called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’. James is ‘surely the best of Britain’s darker crime writers’ said London’s Times, and although the Encyclopaedia of Modern Crime Fiction said he wrote ‘some of the best crime fiction being written today’ we find within these stories a surprisingly human delicacy.
Price: $2.99 USD. 64290 words. Published on October 21, 2011. Fiction.
An original collection of six stories from the writer Ian Rankin called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’. James is ‘surely the best of Britain’s darker crime writers’ said London’s Times, and although the Encyclopaedia of Modern Crime Fiction said he wrote ‘some of the best crime fiction being written today’ we find within these stories a surprisingly human delicacy.
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.
Payback
by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 87490 words. Published on February 18, 2011. Fiction.
Was Albie Carter murdered? After ten years away his brother Floyd, an ex-professional boxer, comes home to learn the truth. Floyd’s lumbering giant of a younger brother has a mental age of twelve. And his old girlfriend is still around. Within days they are plunged into a world of guns and drugs and south east London gangs. ‘A first class story of London gangland,’ said Time Out.
Price: $2.99 USD. 87490 words. Published on February 18, 2011. Fiction.
Was Albie Carter murdered? After ten years away his brother Floyd, an ex-professional boxer, comes home to learn the truth. Floyd’s lumbering giant of a younger brother has a mental age of twelve. And his old girlfriend is still around. Within days they are plunged into a world of guns and drugs and south east London gangs. ‘A first class story of London gangland,’ said Time Out.
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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