Your Mystery and Thriller Book Bargains for January 28, 2020

Growing up in chaotic circumstances, Rebecca yearns for a different life; one that isn’t full of misery, and pain, and violence, at the hands of her mother. So, when she meets Simon, she believes he is her knight in shining armour, but as their relationship intensifies, it doesn’t take long for Rebecca to realise her mistake. That she has swapped one level of abuse for another.
Pregnant, and alone, Rebecca embraces the prospect of a new beginning; mother and child together. Until fate intervenes, and a chance encounter with Simon leads to tragedy.
If only he hadn’t been abusive. If only her mother had accepted the baby. If only her sister wasn’t the golden child…the one who could do no wrong!
Once again Rebecca is forced to start a new life, but the secrets of her old one can’t stay buried forever. And, when the truth is finally revealed, the only thing she has left…is revenge.

As bad blood threatens the old order, a restless new generation rise from their fathers’ shadows, ready to stamp their own identity on the city streets…

Billy “Curtains” Wright overcomes a dysfunctional home life by winning the respect of the local Muirhouse gang, before rising to a key position within Edinburgh’s ecstasy scene. After falling for Lyndsay, a privileged girl from the other side of the tracks, his underworld ambitions are called into question. He accepts a contract to kill a dangerous rival before finding more than he bargained for, forcing him to confront his brutal childhood and the father he wants gone.

George “The Bull” Donaldson was the hardest in the playground, then the streets of Muirhouse. Now he’s a debt collector for his heroin kingpin father. After being taught a cruel lesson, he partners up with best pal Billy, but when family tensions erupt tough choices have to be made.

After being dragged into the middle of a feud between the uncle who mentored him and the father who just walked free from jail, Sean “Preemo” Donaldson is forced to choose a side. A letter from his estranged mother reopens old wounds and he contemplates the unthinkable.

As each man arrives at his own perilous crossroads, what path will he take?

Pure Angst is a gritty crime fiction novel set within 80’s and 90’s gangland Edinburgh, and one of its roughest housing estates, Muirhouse. It charts the changing face of the drug scene, from a heroin and AIDS epidemic to the explosion of MDMA and rave culture…

Category: Crime Fiction

A bloody turf war is erupting between the shellsuit gangsters and the Donaldsons, while the family outcasts look to take advantage of the disorder on the streets…

Who torched Dougie Donaldson’s taxi?
Why are the bodies piling up in the high rises?
Why is a scorned figure from the past poking his nose into everyone’s business?

As things escalate, Billy Wright is forced to question who is plotting against him as he is dragged even deeper into the world he is trying to escape. George Donaldson is sucked into a bitter feud with childhood pals that forces him to answer serious doubts around his loyalties and Sean Donaldson schemes to shift the balance of power in Muirhouse, hellbent on revenge against the uncle who has frozen him out of the family drug business.

Will Billy fulfill the promise he made to girlfriend Lyndsay and leave the life of crime behind as fatherhood approaches? Can George successfully defend his old man’s territory in the face of mounting adversity? Is there any line Sean won’t cross in his quest for supremacy?

Raging is a gritty slice of 90s North Edinburgh crime noir, which forms part 2 of the Chemical Estate book series.

Category: Crime Fiction