Paul D. Brazill books in order

Everybody's here for a reason...

At St. David's asylum for the criminally insane there are twelve residents. They call us that. Not inmates.

We all have a favorite colour. A favorite member of staff. A favorite method of receiving torture for the purposes of science.

We all have our reasons for being here. Our stories. Our tales.

Why don't you come and hear them?

Twelve Mad Men is a groundbreaking literary collaboration. A novel which has a series of stories woven into the narrative, and featuring the finest independent authors from across the globe.

The number one best selling author of Strangers Are Just Friends You Haven't Killed Yet and Paul Carter is a Dead Man, Ryan Bracha, voices the narrator as he embarks upon his first shift as a night guard at St. David's, and as he meets the residents there, it soon becomes apparent that there's something very wrong in the water...

The phenomenally talented writers involved in this innovative and ambitious project are:

Paul D Brazill (Guns of Brixton, A Case of Noir)

Gerard Brennan (Fireproof, Wee Rockets)

Les Edgerton (The Bitch, The Rapist)

Craig Furchtenicht (Dimebag Bandits, Night Speed Zero)

Richard Godwin (Mr Glamour, One Lost Summer, Apostle Rising)

Allen Miles (18 Days, This is How You Disappear)

Keith Nixon (The Fix, The Eagle's Shadow)

Darren Sant (Tales From The Longcroft, The Bank Manager and The Bum)

Gareth Spark (Black Rain, Shotgun Honey)

Martin Stanley (The Gamblers, The Hunters)

Mark Wilson (dEaDINBURGH, Head Boy)

And narrated by Ryan Bracha (Paul Carter is a Dead Man, Strangers are Just Friends You Haven't Killed Yet)

45 British writers, 45 short stories. All coming together to produce an anthology, benefiting two charities...

Children 1st - http://www.children1st.org.uk/

and

Francesca Bimpson Foundation - http://www.francescabimpsonfoundation.org

The line up...

Introduction by Maxim Jakubowski

1. Two Fingers of Noir by Alan Griffiths

2. Eat Shit by Tony Black

3. Baby Face And Irn Bru by Allan Guthrie

4. Pretty Hot T'Ing by Adrian Magson

5. Black Betty by Sheila Quigley

6. Payback: With Interest by Matt Hilton

7. Looking for Jamie by Iain Rowan

8. Stones in Me Pocket by Nigel Bird

9. The Catch and The Fall by Luke Block

10. A Long Time Coming by Paul Grzegorzek

11. Loose Ends by Gary Dobbs

12. Graduation Day by Malcolm Holt

13. Cry Baby by Victoria Watson

14. The Savage World of Men by Richard Godwin

15. Hard Boiled Poem (a mystery) by Alan Savage

16. A Dirty Job by Sue Harding

17. Stay Free by Nick Quantrill

18. The Best Days of My Life by Steven Porter

19. Hanging Stanley by Jason Michel

20. The Wrong Place to Die by Nick Triplow

21. Coffin Boy by Nick Mott

22. Meat Is Murder by Colin Graham

23. Adult Education by Graham Smith

24. A Public Service by Col Bury

25. Hero by Pete Sortwell

26. Snapshots by Paul D Brazill

27. Smoked by Luca Veste

28. Geraldine by Andy Rivers

29. A Minimum of Reason by Nick Boldock

30. Dope on a Rope by Darren Sant

31. A Speck of Dust by David Barber

32. Hard Times by Ian Ayris

33. Never Ending by McDroll

34. Imagining by Ben Cheetham

35. Escalator by Jim Hilton

36. Faces by Frank Duffy

37. A Day In The Death Of Stafford Plank by Stuart Ayris

38. The Plebitarian by Danny Hogan

39. King Edward by Gerard Brennan

40. This Is Glasgow by Steven Miscandlon

41. Brit Grit by Charlie Wade

42. Five Bags Of Billy by Charlie Williams

43. It Could Be You by Julie Morrigan

44. No Shortcuts by Howard Linskey

45. The Great Pretender by Ray Banks

47 short stories, based on classic film titles...

Following the Spinetingler award nominated 'Off The Record', the charity anthology featuring stories based on classic song titles, comes the highly anticipated sequel.

This time, inspiration arrives in the form of classic film titles. With an introduction penned by Chris Ewan and featuring some of biggest and brightest names writing today including...

Will Carver, Steve Mosby, Helen FitzGerald, Adrian McKinty, Matt Hilton, Stav Sherez, Claire McGowan, Sean Cregan, David Jackson, Mel Sherratt, Nick Quantrill, Maxim Jakubowski, and many, many more...

47 writers from around the world. All coming together to raise money for two children's literacy charities...

In the UK, National Literacy Trust.

In the US, Children's Literacy Initiative.

From Crime to Fantasy, Taxi Driver to Weekend at Bernie's, there's something for everyone in this collection of 47 short stories.

And all proceeds from the sales of this anthology go directly to charity!

Edited by Paul D. Brazill, author of Guns Of Brixton and Kill Me Quick!, Exiles is a collection of 26 noir short stories that is not for the squeamish. All stories feature the common theme of 'outsiders'.

We're back again with yet more of our favourite renegades and radgies. Our ceaseless quest to bring you the the unsigned and the unhinged continues. Radgepacket Four brings you over twenty tales of murder, mayhem and madness from the Inner Citiesat a criminally cheap price If you like your fiction industrial strength then there's something in here for you! Come on...GET RADGE!

From France, to Spain, to the northeast of England, hit men, gangsters, corrupt cops, drunks, punks, and petty thieves all tumble toward the abyss. The stories in The Last Laugh are vivid and violent slices of Brit Grit and international noir, full of gaudy characters and dialogue sharp enough to cut your throat.

The Last Laugh is a violent and blackly comic look at life through a shot glass darkly.

Thirteen ways to remember the dead. Thirteen histories of a loving husband.

Betty Peppercorn is burning her husband Frank today. Well, she's burning her property. The corpse she was left with as a reward for loving somebody for better or worse. Frank exists only in her thoughts, anymore.

To her knowledge, Frank had no friends. Betty's not even sure he existed before they met. It comes as a major surprise, then, when several strange faces appear at the funeral, each of them bringing their own stories of what Frank meant to them.

As the day goes on, it becomes increasingly apparent that Frank was not the man she thought he was.

Thirteen new and established writers collide in this brand new novel-of-stories project from Ryan Bracha, the brains behind Twelve Mad Men, The Switched, and The Dead Man Trilogy. All proceeds will be donated to Alzheimer's charities.

Featuring contributions from:

Dominic Adler - The Ninth Circle

Jason Beech - Moorlands

Kevin Berg - Indifference

Paul D. Brazill - A Case of Noir, Guns of Brixton, Kill Me Quick

Robert Cowan - The Search For Ethan, For All is Vanity

Craig Furchtenicht - Dimebag Bandits, Behind the 8 Ball

Shervin Jamali - The Devil's Lieutenant

Jason Michel - The Death of Three Colours, The Black-Hearted Beat

Allen Miles - This is How You Disappear

Alex Shaw - The Aidan Snow series

Martin Stanley - The Gamblers, Glasgow Grin, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Billingham Forum

Mark Wilson - The dEaDINBURGH series, On The Seventh Day, Ice Cold Alice

Hit-men, con men, jewel thieves, career criminals, killers, crooks and cannibals. They all congregate between the pages of Paul D. Brazill’s Small Time Crimes - a brutal and blackly comic collection of short stories and flash fiction that views the world at its most askew.

Werewolves, vampires and other creatures of the night prowl the neon and blood soaked streets in this sharp short story collection that places the supernatural in a hardboiled noir world.

‘DEATH TOLL 3: End Game’ is an uncompromising, page-turning crime thriller anthology that brings together crime writers based in eight different countries spanning five continents.

This is the best short thriller fiction from today’s best crime writers: Matt Hilton, Douglas Stewart, Alex Shaw, Charlie Flowers, Stephen Edger, Paul D Brazil, Dominic Adler, Paul Grzegorzek, Jamie Mason, JH Bográn, Liam Saville and Harlan Wolff.

Each of these authors are fan favorites at the top of their game, and together they represent the best of contemporary, international crime and thriller fiction.

DEATH TOLL 3: End Game includes

‘Death Sentence’ – DOUGLAS STEWART

‘Dead Soldiers’ – CHARLIE FLOWERS

‘Mostly dead’ – PAUL GRZEGORZEK

‘Paranoia’ – STEPHEN EDGER

‘A Dead Man In Greek Street’ – HARLAN WOLFF

‘Sealed Bid’ – DOMINIC ADLER

‘Back From The Dead’ – PAUL D. BRAZIL

‘Marius And The Prisoner of Conscience’ - JAMIE MASON

‘Mr Big’ – LIAM SAVILLE

‘Hell Is A Place On Earth’ - J.H. BOGRAN

‘The Due Season’ – MATT HILTON

‘Rum Slap’ – ALEX SHAW

As you read these stories remember gentle reader: life and luck can turn on a dime. All of the foundations of your life can crumble in an instant. While you think about that, enjoy this collection of pulp, noir and horror stories about luck and all the misfortune and mishaps it has in store for us.

Too Many Crooks is a blackly comic Brit Grit romp from the author of Guns Of Brixton and A Case Of Noir. When high-class fence Leslie Hawkins meets Peter Rhatigan in a sleazy London pub, he offers her the chance to get her hands on the Totenkopfring, a legendary piece of World War Two memorabilia. However, after a violent encounter with a member of a biker gang, things soon spiral wildly and dangerously out of control...

Too Many Crooks by Paul D, Brazill is a fast-moving and action-packed cocktail of bodies, bullets and death-black comedy.

Here is a compete list of the series, written by various authors:

1. Bad Luck City (2016)

2. One Day In The Life Of Jason Dean (2016)

3. Marwick's Reckoning (2016)

4. Back To The World (2016)

5. An Eye For An Eye (2016)

6. A Dish Served Cold (2017)

7. Too Many Crooks (2017)

8. A Case Of Noir (2017)

9. Big City Blues (2017)

10. Portrait Of An Assassin (2017)

11. Maurice (2017)

12. The Hard Cold Shoulder (2017)

In snow smothered Warsaw, Luke Case, a boozy English hack with a dark secret, starts a dangerous affair with a gangster's wife. Case escapes to the sweltering Spanish heat where he meets a colorful cast of characters, including a mysterious torch singer and a former East End villain with a criminal business proposition. While in stormy Toulouse, he encounters a blast from the past that is positively seismic which forces him to return to England and confront his past.

A Case Of Noir is a strong shot of international noir from Paul D. Brazill.

Here is a compete list of the series, written by various authors:

1. Bad Luck City (2016)

2. One Day In The Life Of Jason Dean (2016)

3. Marwick's Reckoning (2016)

4. Back To The World (2016)

5. An Eye For An Eye (2016)

6. A Dish Served Cold (2017)

7. Too Many Crooks (2017)

8. A Case Of Noir (2017)

9. Big City Blues (2017)

10. Portrait Of An Assassin (2017)

11. Maurice (2017)

12. The Hard Cold Shoulder (2017)

British coppers, an American private eye, London gangsters, international spies, and a serial killer known as The Black Crow all collide violently and hilariously in Big City Blues, another fast-moving and funny slice of Brit Grit from Paul D. Brazill.

Here is a compete list of the series, written by various authors:

1. Bad Luck City (2016)

2. One Day In The Life Of Jason Dean (2016)

3. Marwick's Reckoning (2016)

4. Back To The World (2016)

5. An Eye For An Eye (2016)

6. A Dish Served Cold (2017)

7. Too Many Crooks (2017)

8. A Case Of Noir (2017)

9. Big City Blues (2017)

10. Portrait Of An Assassin (2017)

11. Maurice (2017)

12. The Hard Cold Shoulder (2017)

Soon after its founding in 2011, Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction became the globally recognized home of international crime fiction. Noir Nation’s content is often dark, sometimes creepy, and sometimes humorous but always at the service of the literary imagination as it explores the darker regions of human experience, where the only crime is weak writing.

This inaugural issue contains stories of a felon who hates books, a surgeon involved in the lurid murder of a nurse, a 7-11 stickup, the killing and night burial of a kangaroo, an ex-con who returns to prison, a venomous snake used as a murder weapon, a student/teacher romantic affair that promises ruin, revenge on an abusive priest and a Nazi collaborator, a missing mother, a serial killer in the woods, and a ruthless home aid nurse. It also contains a poem by a famous gun moll and a photographic illustrations of tattoo art.

The issue mixes award-winning masters of hardboiled and literary crime fiction Paul D. Brazill, Bianca Bellova, Jean Charbonneau, Tristan Davies, Les Edgerton, Stephen Gibson, Timothy Patrick Gibson, JJ Toner, and Scott Wolven with newer and emerging writers Leah Chamberlain, R.F. Warner, Kevin Hardcastle, Gerald Heys, Kevin Levites, and Yewande Omotoso. It also includes commentary on the state of noir fiction by J. Madison Davis, Alan Ward Thomas, Melodie Campbell, Wendy A. Reynolds, Ann Littlewood, Ann Cleeves, Linton Robinson, and Joe Trigoboff.

A foul-mouthed, violently comic crime caper, full of gaudy characters and dialogue sharp enough to shave with.

When London gangster Mad Tony Cook gives aging thugs Big Jim and Kenny Rogan the simple task of collecting a briefcase from northern courier Half-Pint Harry he doesn’t suspect that the courier will end up dead in his lock-up, or that Kenny and Big Jim will then dress up in drag to rob a jeweler's shop and lose the coveted briefcase.

A fast-moving, wild, and hilarious search for the missing briefcase quickly ensues, with fatal consequences.

We’re all lying in the gutter, but some of us are staring at the spaces between the stars...

Seatown may not have a lot going for it – apart from the Roy Orbison lookalikes and Super Seventies Special every Thursday night, of course – but it is at least the place Mark Hammonds calls home. And after a decade away, it's the place he returns to when he has nowhere else to go.

From dead bikers to dodgy drug deals, from one downbeat bar to another, from strippers to gangsters and back again: the luckless former musician bounces from one misdeed to the next along with a litany of old acquaintances, almost as though he never left. And if only he can shake off everybody who wants to kill, maim or otherwise hurt him, maybe he could even think about staying.

After all, there’s no place like home, eh?

A killer priest is on the rampage across London and an egotistical Hollywood action movie star is out for revenge when his precious comic book collection is stolen. Meanwhile, gangster Marty Cook's dreams of going legit swiftly turn pear shaped when one of his bouncers accidentally kills one of his salsa club's regular customers. Razor sharp wisecracks, gaudy characters and even gaudier situations abound in Cold London Blues.

Following the breakdown of his marriage, in a booze-addled flash of inspiration, Peter Ord decides to become a private investigator. Dark farce and tragicomedy soon ensue. Peter must tackle many challenging cases, and when he comes under the radar of a local crime lord, he may have bitten off more than he can chew. With sidekicks, like boozy hack, Bryn Laden, failure is not an option - it’s compulsory.

A troubled, ageing hit man leaves London and returns to his hometown in the north east of England hoping for peace. But the ghosts of his past return to haunt him.

Last Year’s Man is a violent and blackly comic slice of Brit Grit noir.

Ageing hit-man Tommy Bennett left London and returned to his hometown of Seatown, hoping for respite from the ghosts of the violent past that haunted him. However, things don’t go to plan and trouble and violence soon follow Tommy to Seatown.

Tommy is soon embroiled in Seatown’s underworld and his hopes of a peaceful retirement are dashed. Tommy deliberates whether or not to leave Seatown and return to London. Or even leave Great Britain altogether. So, he heads back to London where violence and mayhem await him.

Man of the World is a violent and darkly comic slice of Brit Grit noir.