A P O S T L E U N B O U N D
The long-awaited sequel to APOSTLE RISING
A serial killer crucifying politicians and evading justice.
A dark, blood stained legacy.
Scores to settle.
The notorious serial killer resurfaces after Apostle Rising as the founder of a cult, with plans to remove all major politicians all over post-Brexit Britain. The unfinished business with his mentor – the score that must be settled – compels the killer toward a dark and shocking ending.
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T H E A R T I S T
A novel about the art world and the effect a charismatic artist has on his models. A narrative that is about marriage and desire, it is also an exploration of aesthetics and pleasure.
Krista Fleur and Gertrude Peters are trapped in marriages they feel are stifling them. When they meet handsom artist Michael Jones at his exhibition their lives change. Their frequent lunches lead them to decide they will model for him, arousing jealousy and conflict at home.
As their personal lives change, Gertrude’s friend Maurice Clamp holds a key to her personality. He is her Bohemian mother’s ex-lover and Gertrude needs to reconcile her relationship with her mother to find herself. But it is Michael who shows Gertrude truths she shuns.
M I R R O R W O R L D
In the age of totalitarian voyeurism, where the watcher is watched, narcissism is the politically codified simulacum of identity, and the only escape from the political programme is anarchy, the murder of a politician, the occult, or Art.
Welcome to Mirror World.
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W A I T I N G F O R T H E S K I N M A N
So… Just who is the Skin Man?
Waiting For The Skin Man is a collection of short stories, guaranteed to shock even the most hardened readers of horror. An eclectic twist of noir. A collection of interlinked perspectives through the eyes of people warped by madness. Prepare to witness people touched by the unholy divinity as ancient as the soil under their feet.
If you’re after a dark, sensual, rich and an utterly disturbing read, then wait for the Skin Man.
“An exceptional story teller.”
—The Independent
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T H E S E C R E T L I V E S O F T O W N S
Jasmin Prey is seeking the missing pieces of her memory of events that have altered her life, and she needs the help of her lover, photographer Manuel Rogers. This is a first person female narrative novel. Set in 5 major European cities, it is an exploration of identity and memory. It suggests that in order to avoid being cloned by the modern state, it is vital to establish an individual reality in an age of voyeuristic totalitarianism.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
I N S I N C E R I T Y
Published June 4, 2018
PI Tammy Wayne hunts serial killers for a living, and she has a personal interest in the brutal mind game killer called The Pimp who took her sister from her, but The Pimp has her under surveillance and his own ideas for her. Meanwhile, Karen Sincere believes her deranged husband Micky is leading a double life as a killer, and she starts an affair with mysterious Gigolo Julius Gold, but who is Julius Gold? When Karen takes it to Tammy they both decide Micky is The Pimp and Tammy places him under surveillance, but what she discovers is that he is a member of the Midnight Club. And that there is another killer out there, called The Beekeeper, who seems to be helping The Pimp.
An irresistible arch seducer travels across Europe seducing beautiful women, and haunting them like an Erotic Ghost. But he has his secrets, and his exploits eventually see him involved in a criminal underworld.
T H E A R M A G E D D O N C O M P L E X
Published January 25, 2019
The city is being taken over by an organisation so secretive that no one has heard of them. British secret services scramble for information and a biochemist protégé works on an antidote that will save Britain from the lethal pathogen that is sweeping its streets. In a post Brexit Britain, the UK is falling apart, and it takes one man to stop it, meet Mike Banks : MI6’s top agent.
W E T A K E W H A T F A T H E R S W E C A N
Published January 25, 2019
In two parts, fathers lament the losses of their daughters.
In the novella All The Broken Things a father discovers his daughter has been brutally raped and murdered and enters a labyrinth of excavation only to discover she had as a journalist unearthed the secrete dangerous Magenta Club. As he digs for clues his marriage falls apart and his wife leaves him for a man who tries to destroy her.
In Inhabit we are unsure whether the grieving father even had a daughter. Then a young woman turns up on his estate and he is convinced she is Emily returned.
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GET A TASTE OF GODWIN
C R Y S T A L O N E L E C T R I C A C E T A T E
Published June 4, 2018
‘Crystal on Electric Acetate’ is the first and ultimate original collection of short stories by crime and mystery novelist Richard Godwin. Comprising a fascinating and versatile range of stories previously published in great and ground-breaking cutting-edge paper and online magazines, this collection sums up his take on noir. From urban decay to Gothic explosion, at once revolutionary, iconoclastic, erotic and dark as that cellar next door.
“If you think this is one genre, think again. If you think you can work out what hybrid genre this is, think again. Mutation exists at all levels. Welcome to the mix of stories.”
—Richard Godwin
“Godwin is truly one of our great authors.”
—Luca Veste, author of Dead Gone
HANG WITH THE ‘WRONG CROWD’
W R O N G C R O W D
East End villains and the Russian Mafia collide in a fast-paced novel of deceit and criminal obsession that sparkles as it speeds towards its astonishing conclusion.
Read a review in the ITW’s The Big Thrill
The great crime novelist James Lee Burke paid tribute to my article about his works at Crimespree magazine.
U N D E R G R O U N D I N T E R V I E W
Richard Godwin talks about serial killers and dictators, the unconscious, the political programmes we inhabit and his new release, Wrong Crowd. Click image at right to listen.
V I S I T T H E S L A U G H T E R H O U S E
Click the image at right to read Richard Godwin’s popular and unusual interviews with other authors.
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Noir City New Edition
Dangerous gigolo, Paris Tongue, takes women out of their lives, resurrects their sexual identity like an erotic priest. They are haunted by him, irredeemably changed. And when he seduces the wife of a Mafia boss, he finds himself in danger, hunted across Europe, facing change.
Portrait Of An Assassin
When ex-Commando, Jack, leaves the Royal Marines, he becomes a hitman for the Sicilian Mafia and a highly sought after International assassin. When he is approached with a contract involving selling plutonium to Syria, he finds himself embroiled in a government plot in which the hunter becomes the hunted.
Crystal On Electric Acetate
Comprising a fascinating and versatile range of stories previously published in great and ground-breaking cutting-edge paper and online magazines, this collection sums up the author’s take on noir. From urban decay to Gothic explosion, at once revolutionary, iconoclastic, erotic and dark as that cellar next door.
Android Love, Human Skin
In a future where a biochemical weapon has removed the skins of the population, the rulers hunt for the beautiful ones, those men and women who still have skins. They offer these humans four different genders of robots with which to have relationships. But the androids have human DNA and they have other ideas beyond the political programme.
Buffalo And Sour Mash
A crime novel about distorted love. A Western. A lyrical slice of the prairie, a frontier narrative. A noir novel about obsession and revenge, desire and predation. A look at one man’s grip on insanity and a story about female beauty and showmanship.
Locked In Cages
When the adult children of two wealthy families are kidnapped, private detective Earl Blake enters a labyrinth of lies and evasions as he attempts to rescue them. The kidnapper wants money the families can’t come up with, and Earl finds himself in a race against time to find Michael and Abby before it is too late.
The Pure And The Hated
A man takes a stranger into his house only to unleash a savage lesson from the past. A psychological crime novel about the past, the nature of justice, family secrets, the nature of forgiveness, revenge, identity, hunting and predation.
Disembodied
Surveillance and abductions, a novel about the age of digital publishing and what it means. A novel about physicality. When a publisher believes we are being turned into code he finds out he may not be wrong. Then he is arrested for a terrorist plot against London.
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Savage Highway
Women are disappearing on the highway, a drifter hunts the men who raped her, and a journalist discovers law has broken down in the area.
Ersatz World
Samuel Verso is an old-fashioned publisher resisting the lure of e-books. As his wife fills the hallway with prosthetic limbs and his business partner is replaced with an exact replica he realises his problems run deeper than books on a computer screen…
Paranoia And The Destiny Programme
Dale Helix is convinced he is being abducted by the Assembly, a shadowy group of rulers who are engineering a new gender. Is Dale insane or is his paranoia a key to a hidden truth?
Meaningful Conversations
A hybrid Noir novel that takes a look at the modern world and its most hidden addictions and mythologies. It’s about Bertrand Mavers, the most adjusted killer you will ever meet. He is also The Candy Man.
Confessions Of A Hit Man
A high octane thriller. When ex-Royal Marine Jack becomes a paid assassin, work comes easily, especially when working for the Sicilian Mafia, until he gets drawn into a government plot selling enriched plutonium to a rogue Nation.
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Listen to an interview about ‘Confessions Of A Hit Man’ and ‘One Lost Summer’
The killing machine in my first novel Apostle Rising is still on the loose, even as the sequel is being wrapped up for a 2016 release. The lyrical style of Apostle Rising has kept it in high demand and attracted foreign rights sales.
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