T. Kent Morgan wrote:
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> Also inthe package was Cathi Unsworth's second novel
titled The
> Singer. I loved her first crime novel, The Not
Knowing. Bruen said
> Derek Raymond "is
> reincarnated in Cathi Unsworth" and that "I haven't
been as excited by
> a new
> writer since I first read Ellroy or stumbled across
the very first James
> Sallis." David Peace also raved about both novels.
Anyone on the list read
> Unsworth? Maybe John Williams?
>
Um, yes, I have indeed read both Cathi Unsworth's books, as I
'm the feller who acquired them for Serpent's Tail. And very
good they are too. The Singer is less of an out and out crime
novel than The Not Knowing - it's basically that rare beast,
a really good rock'n'roll novel. Her work in progress by the
way, set in 1950s London, promises to be something
extraordinary.
Anyway, while I'm blowing the trumpet for Serpent's Tail, can
I urge all of you to check out the work of Robert Lewis,
whose The Last Llanelli Train is one of the finest PI novels
of recent decades, and is about to have an even better
sequel, Swansea Terminal (published in the fall).
And next year we start publishing Dave Zeltserman, with the
first of a supafine trilogy of badass out of jail novels that
I'll happily commend to anyone with even a passing interest
in the genre.
End of commercial.
John
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