Martyn Waites, Author . Pegasus $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-933648-35-4
Characters struggle, sometimes heroically, against their compulsions and addictions in Waites's messy sequel to The Mercy Seat
(2006). Journalist Joe Donovan's life fell apart after his six-year-old son vanished years ago, but now he's put together
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Martyn Waites, Author . Pegasus $14.95 (233p) ISBN 978-1-933648-18-7
Acclaimed British noir author Waites (The Mercy Seat
) is somewhat less than accomplished in his debut novel, first published in the U.K. in 1997, a grim look at the Newcastle underworld. Stephen Larkin, a London journalist, is still traumatized by...
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Martyn Waites, Author . Pegasus $25 (421p) ISBN 978-1-933648-00-2
An enterprising new publishing house launches its list with British author Waite's sixth crime novel (his first to be published in the U.S.), a beautifully written and constructed thriller that courageously avoids using sentimentality to balance
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Martyn Waites, Author . Allison & Busby $9.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-7490-0585-6
Brit noir is alive and well in this brutal but compelling foray into the netherworld of Newcastle, England. When tabloid reporter and former drug addict Steven Larkin, the protagonist Waites introduced in Candleland, returns to his home turf to...
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Martyn Waites, Author . Pegasus $25.95 (452p) ISBN 978-1-60598-027-0
An intelligent, fast-paced plot about radical groups orchestrating a race riot is only one highlight of Waites's superb third Joe Donovan thriller (after Bone Machine
). In a thoughtful subplot, the British author suggests it's not shared...
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Martyn Waites. Blackstone, $17.99 trade paper (424p) ISBN 979-8-20072-237-2
British author Waites’s overwrought third outing for ex-undercover cop Tom Killgannon (after 2019’s The Sinner) finds Tom still living in witness protection in Cornwall. When his liaison officer asks Tom to provide a temporary home for 17-year-old...
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Martyn Waites, Author Pegasus $25.95 (390p) ISBN 978-1-60598-096-6
Waites’s brilliant fourth Joe Donovan thriller (after White Riot
) puts him in the same league as such established contemporary noir masters as Ian Rankin, John Harvey, and Denise Mina. When Mae Blacklock was 11, she strangled a boy to death...
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Martyn Waites. Blackstone, $26.99 (386p) ISBN 978-1-9825-4875-9
Tom Killgannon, the hero of this uneven gothic mystery from Waites (The Woman in Black: Angel of Death), has settled in St. Petroc, Cornwall, to try to shed a former life he led in another part of England. One stormy day, a troubled, frightened...
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Martyn Waites. Blackstone, $17.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-9825-4878-0
In British author Waites’s relentlessly tense if flawed sequel to 2020’s The Old Religion, the police persuade former undercover cop Tom Killgannon, who’s been in the witness protection program in rural Cornwall, to pose as a convict in a local...
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