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About Mean Streets
Mean Streets is mostly a crime fiction review blog. It's a collaboration between various crime-addicts, many of whom write crime fiction themselves. We welcome your comments and also welcome new reviewers. Either add your comments to a post on the left or get in touch.The Master Criminal
Mean Streets was set up by Harry Bingham, a bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction. The first of his new series of crime thrillers will be published summer 2012. He also runs The Writers' Workshop, an editorial agency for writers offering critiques, courses and mentoring.
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Author Archives: PaulDBrazill
The Bloody Meadow by William Ryan
It’s 1937 and at the close of a particularly harsh winter, Moscow Militia detective Captain Alexei Korolev receives an ominous knock on the door in the dead of night. Korolev- despite recently being decorated after the events in William Ryan‘s cracking previous novel, The Holy Thief - expects … Continue reading
Hill Country by R. Thomas Brown
‘The only thing worse than getting beat up by a paedophile was coming home and finding him dead on your porch.’ And, after that cracking opening line, things really go downhill for Gabriel Hill, Ph.D. Gabe is the white sheep … Continue reading
The Holy Thief by William Ryan
The Holy Thief by William Ryan. The day that I started reading William Ryan’s smashing historical police procedural The Holy Thief, the temperature was minus twelve centigrade here in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Sat on a crowded tram that slowly cut its … Continue reading
The Retribution by Val McDermid
Not one but two serial killers for the price of one. Hows that for value for money? The Retribution is Val McDermid‘s twenty-fifth novel in twenty five years and its protagonists are DCI Carol Jordan and police profiler Tony Hill, who have appeared in six … Continue reading
Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke
Billy Karlsson is a disgruntled hospital porter; an urban Raskolinikov; an existentialist powder keg waiting to explode. An angry young man who has hatched a plan to blow up a hospital in order to vent his revenge on the world. … Continue reading
The End Of The Wasp Season by Denise Mina
The police procedural really isn’t my favorite slice of crime fiction pizza. Probably because it’s usually more about puzzles than people. Denise Mina’s The End Of The Wasp Season, however, while being a fairly straightforward police procedural, is all about character, which may or may not be a … Continue reading
Apostle Rising by Richard Godwin
Richard Godwin‘s debut novel, Apostle Rising, is a dark as the void between the stars. As black as a killer’s soul. On the surface, Apostle Rising is a police procedural. A serial killer novel. And a damned good one it … Continue reading
Still Bleeding by Steve Mosby
Still Bleeding by Steve Mosby ‘Death has ripples’ ‘Death is contagious’ Sarah is only a young a child when her father talks to her about death and she is haunted by its spectre all of her life. In fact, Sarah … Continue reading
Convictions by Julie Morrigan
Julie Morrigan’s writing gives you a good smack, as anyone who has read Gone Bad,her brilliant, brass knuckled collection of urban noir short stories, will tell you. In her cracking debut novel, Convictions, she gives you a hell of a kicking, knees you in … Continue reading
Ray Banks interview by Paul D Brazill
PDB) If your Private Eye hero Cal Innes and Tony Black’s Gus Dury went on a drinking session, who would be the first to get their head kicked in? RB) Innes would be the first one to get his head … Continue reading