Bøker av Phil Gerraud

A writer looking for success ...Pulp fiction author Carl Kenning writes shocking stories. Violence and perversion are his favourite themes, and making money is his goal.Naked, two gunshot wounds to her chest, a red scarf knotted around her neck ...The vicious murder of a young nurse, which copies the murder of a schoolgirl thirty years ago, is just the kind of thing Carl likes to write about. His plan is simple: churn out a book and pocket the profit.But this time things aren't that easy.Two women-an ambitious journalist and a police officer with a troubled life-want the murderer behind bars and decades-old wrongs to be paid for. Nothing will stop them. But Carl stands in their way and is dragged into an unsettling game of cat-and-mouse.A crime is resurfacing from the past.A crime nobody wants to remember.When more violent deaths enter the headlines, and the fear of a psychopathic killer on the prowl grips the audience, Carl gets more than he has bargained for. The lesson he learns is hard: never dig into anyone's past, or you may put your own life in danger, and the lives of the people you care about!Who is ready to face the sordid shadows haunting their dreams?

A reporter struggles to kick his career back on track. When he witnesses a brutal crime, he thinks it is a great opportunity and he dives headlong into a madcap investigation. He soon ends up in the middle of a plot where nothing is safe.

A dinner party gone awry. Two butchered victims. Four suspects.Art dealer Benedict Belford and artist Simonne Turner are found in a pool of blood at his country house, their throats slashed and their bodies mutilated.The investigation plunges Chief Inspector George Alcott into Benedict's extravagant life. A hidden world of stylish women and lewd get-togethers soon comes to light, yet no one seems to have a motive for the vicious murders -- not the art-gallery owner or the lecturer in German literature, nor the suspense writer and her crabby husband.But is Alcott prepared when the case takes a shocking turn and the last piece of the puzzle falls into place?Dog Days, Crazed Blood is a novella full of mystery, ambiguity, and deception.

A small collection of flash pulp fiction stories which blend suspense, mystery, crime, bizarre, grotesque, and even action, with a shot of dark humour ...A young lady prefers her tea dark and strong, but why does it taste much sweeter today?A penniless private investigator is hired by a knockout in red, but is he truly aware of what he has to deal with?A dispirited poet whiles away his nights at a solitary drinking den, but tonight he is in for a hell-raising surprise.A stranger's bet must never be accepted even though it looks like a tantalising, sure-fire win.A woman's name always hides a lot of secrets.Even a heavenly picnic has its hellish drawbacks.And more, much more ... A whirlpool of riveting flash fiction.Each story is between 450 and 2500 words long. This book is about 12,900 words long.