Five books into the Ash Carter series by Murray Bailey so you probably know if you like these or not. I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of the latest one. Singapore Killer is a plot driven thriller set in the 1950s, though most of the character display very mod...

Just to say, Badly Cut Up is currently free on most platforms (and 99p/99c on Amazon, which is as low as they'll let me go) for the duration of the Covid-19 lockdown. Happy reading and stay healthy! Links to sites on the home page.

Hard to know exactly what to say about Aimee Ann's Redheaded Booklover blog. It's a commercial review blog that covers some trad print titles, but mostly self published books like Badly Cut Up. Aimee says she only reviews books she likes and her review definitely runs...

The first influence for Vye was the famous Seattle tattoo artist, Vyvyn Lazonga (aka Madame Lazonga). She opened a tattoo parlor not unlike Vye's in 1989, and was a famous fixture on the Seattle scene about five minutes later. Vye is a window into that scene - the scar...

Warning, Badly Cut Up contains:

Frequent Violence

Gang violence

Sexual violence

Threatened sexual violence 

Violence to the eye

Violence to a corpse

Violence against the police

Dog fighting 

Scarification

Body modification 

Swearing

Torture

More torture

Threats of violence (acted on...

Ash was ‘born’ from a very particular set of influences in my life. 

I’d recently spent a summer living in the Central District (CD) in Seattle, and it was a ‘hot’ summer as they say. Gunshots were often heard in the night and what I thought was a bum sleeping it off as...

It's like this:

Ash threaded his way through the crowd, slouching back towards Viktor's and home. The flow of the crowd was against him. Everyone wanted to leave that part of town. A Suit brushed Ash's shoulder as he passed, briefcase thudding into Ash's leg, setting of...

This book has been a number of things in its writing. The first draft of the first 10,000 of its roughly 50,000 words were written a long time ago – the early 1990s in fact. That’s part of the reason the book is set in 1996. At the time I’d recently been bereaved and,...