Russell: 3438 books

D.C. Russells fanaticism with cinema, especially the horror genre, fuelled in part by studying film studies in London, England, is a passion that, when coupled with a great interest in psychoanalysis and crime, has led to a creative outlet. For readers, D. C. Russell hopes to create something of the...

South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end life as a security van driver. When his van disappears...

“When beauty’s the prizeWhat mortal fears dying?”Tim Hawk plans his assassinations well, rehearsing them with cool detachment, and his professionalism makes him a rising star in Kazan’s gang. Hawk’s only other interest, an unexpected love for baroque opera, is kept concealed. When Kazan...

If you thought the bloodthirsty Jacobean tragedy, The Changeling, could not be made any more shocking, you haven’t read this version, written by the man Ian Rankin called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’. James cuts to the quick – and in doing so cuts some of the more old-fashioned coincidences,...

Paul and Fay have little in common. He is well-paid and comfortable while Fay, after breaking up with Roper, her violent boyfriend, has nothing left but her young daughter. On the night Paul rescues her their two worlds briefly touch, like a kiss on a pool table after which the flight of the balls...

This collection of six stories has been brought together for the first time within one book. Five are set in London, though the first brings some of his London characters out for a day’s shooting in the Cotswolds. (This is the story singled out in the Times as ‘a splendid country house shocker’.)...

"I behaved badly at that first supper. That’s what my parents thought. They didn’t say, they wouldn’t, but I could see it in their stiffened faces."On a bleak, muddy island in the Blackwater Estuary, Lizzie struggles to come to terms with the loss of her unborn child and the death of...

The discovery of thousands of empty abalone shells and two murdered divers sends Lieutenant John Marquez's poaching investigation in a new—and very risky—direction. Former DEA agent and now head of a special operations unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, Marquez learns he...

Synopsis: For millennia man ruled the earth, but destiny eventually drove him to the stars. This created two factions; those that stayed and those that left. Between were the many ships and stations that supplied them both and acted as a lifeline. When Captain Metcalf received a distress call...

Mace Edmonds is single and approaching forty. She prefers her own company and staying home. Family and friends want to change Mace 'for the better', but she's happy as she is. Should she change and become someone else - someone more sociable - to please others or is it perfectly OK to choose what makes her happy?

We live in an age of ideology, propaganda, and tribalism. Political conformity is enforced from many sides; the insidious social control that John Stuart Mill called “the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling.” Liberal or left-minded people are often more afraid of each other than of their...

The second book in the Evolutis Rising series Deadly Discovery, is a technothriller adventure ride through the discovery of space and time travel for Elizabeth Stosak and her cohort, all members of a new species of human, Homo Evolutis.Pursued by paramilitary forces wanting to weaponize their powers,...

"A blood-pumping, nerve-shredding thriller--elegant, edgy, ingenious. Craig Russell conjures not one but two unforgettable settings: Prague between the wars, pulsing with menace, and a Gothic mental asylum, as exciting a house of horrors as I've ever visited. You'll enter both with dread. You'll...

Something in the lake…    4th of July Weekend! Time for flags, barbeques and late night fireworks. For the residents of a sleepy West Michigan community, the carefree days of sun-soaked bliss are about to be interrupted by a deadly abomination of nature…lurking in the depths of a local lake.     Vietnam...