Russell James: 170 books

Book cover of Lost
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

From one of Britain’s masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented in bargain-price format. The title story, Lost, introduces the only detective to be given a lead role in a Russell James story (a beguiling character, he is the ex-priest turned detective Joe Venables,...
Book cover of No One Gets Hurt
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012

A violent and sexy thriller – but then, it is about the internet porn industry. Russell James is ‘not only a connoisseur of fear and menace,’ said the Erotic Review, ‘he would have us look at this unconsoled and unconsoling world and see its twisted charms.’The book raises an interesting...
Book cover of Rafael's Gold
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013

In this new thriller from Russell James a 21st century quest for sunken treasure is interlaced with love and tragedy from the time of the Spanish Armada. King Philip’s quest to defeat and subdue upstart Britain under Queen Elizabeth 1st is in stark contrast to the very different quest of a film...
Book cover of Stories I Can't Tell
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2016

What secrets lurk in her battered trunk of theatrical souvenirs? Find out in this illustrated confessional from stage star Maggie King (assisted by Russell james). On the eve of the Second World War Maggie King is preparing a celebrity memoir. From her theatrical trunk she pulls sketches from her...
Book cover of Painting in the Dark
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011

There are two main threads to the book: a modern crime story and the recollections of an 85-year-old woman with dark secrets in her past. Set during the British General Election of 1997 when Tony Blair swept to power, the story bounces back to the 1930s when another charismatic leader rose in Europe....
Book cover of Maud Allan Affair
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009

Maud Allan, the famous exotic dancer was destroyed by the infamous libel trial brought by charismatic British Member of Parliament. and pilot, Noel Pemberton-Billing. In this wonderfully written book, Russell James charts her rise and fall from the days when she saved the 1908 London Olympics...
Book cover of Pick Any Title
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011

‘Lord Clive’ bought his lordship at a ‘Lord of the Manor’ sale where titles fetch anything from two thousand to two hundred thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop at only one customer? When some of his American buyers, each of whom imagines himself an English...
Book cover of Count Me Out
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2011

South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end life as a security van driver. When his van disappears...
Book cover of The Annex
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012

If you thought the bloodthirsty Jacobean tragedy, The Changeling, could not be made any more shocking, you haven’t read this version, written by the man Ian Rankin called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’. James cuts to the quick – and in doing so cuts some of the more old-fashioned coincidences,...
Book cover of The London Sextet
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011

This collection of six stories has been brought together for the first time within one book. Five are set in London, though the first brings some of his London characters out for a day’s shooting in the Cotswolds. (This is the story singled out in the Times as ‘a splendid country house shocker’.)...
Book cover of Payback
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011

After ten years away, ex-boxer Floyd Carter comes back for his brother’s funeral, and to decide what’s to be done with his other brother, the lumbering Ludo whose mental age is barely twelve. But if Ludo knows anything it is that Albie’s death was not an accident. And if Floyd knows anything...
Book cover of Underground
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011

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'. Now his enemies have smoked him out and it is...
Book cover of Brace Yourself
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2012

John Leighton, owner of a fine estate in the Cotswolds, lives well – when we meet him he is ‘warmly encased in leather-lined Le Chameau boots, neat Habicht binoculars slung loose around his neck, and he carries a boxlock Holland and Holland Cavalier shotgun in one hand.’ Weekend shooting parties...
Book cover of Terri's Tales
by Russell James
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

From one of Britain’s masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented here in bargain-price format. The first, A Piece of Cake, has been anthologised several times already, and tells of the night Terri waited at home for her current lover, the no-good Jeg, to return...
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