Barry Forshaw on Steve Mosby and James Hadley Chase...
Edgy Brit Steve Mosby (author of the splendid Dark Room) and his once-notorious predecessor James Hadley Chase specialise in fiction that takes no prisoners, and is guaranteed to take readers into very dangerous territory – in which the protagonist’s ill-advised behaviour usually has violent results. Chase’s blistering No Orchids for Miss Blandish is his key novel, not least because its sexuality and violence so upset George Orwell!
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The Dark Room ... it's the place where fear comes from.
DI Hicks must face not only a killer obsessed with randomness and chaos, but also the secret in his own past. If he is to stop the killings, he must confront the truth about himself and the fact that some murders begin in much darker places than he ever imagined.
DI Andrew Hicks thinks he knows all about murder. For Hicks, however horrific the act, the reasons behind killing are ultimately all too explicable. So when a woman is found bludgeoned to death, he suspects a crime of passion and attention focuses on her possessive ex-husband.
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DI Andrew Hicks thinks he knows all about murder. For Hicks, however horrific the act, the reasons behind killing are ultimately all too explicable.
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Dark Room was written by Steve Mosby and published by Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
