Nick Valentine has problems. He’s a drunken ex-cop who lives in his shabby office, hangs out at strip clubs, and has only one real friend—Frank Sinatra. But he’s one of the best private investigators in St. Louis. So when an inept crew robs a...
The second of the "Factory" series of bleak, atmospheric and subversive crime novels. The nameless detective is still working in the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met, with no headline cases - just the sordid underbelly of London...
The client had an extraordinary air of assurance about her — one could almost say a queenly air.
There was no doubt that she was in some sort of jam, which had started years before when she had won a beauty contest. The question was, why was...