Big Jessie

Scarlet plucks her twelve-string guitar with nails the colour of glazed cherries and Belfast music hack Jessie 'Jay' Black is smitten. He charms his way on to her tour bus as her band head for Dublin, but the second they cross the border he feels the heat of a sniper's bullet.

Who wants Jay dead? Or rather, who doesn't want him dead? Any number of people might have pulled the trigger. There's Scarlet's stalker, the gun-toting shoe fetishist. There's the still-grieving widow of Northern Ireland's international goalkeeper Miles Huggins, who Jay inadvertently killed. There's the RUC Chief Constable who has given Jay an ultimatum. Not to mention Sinn Fein numero uno Martin O'Hanlon, who Jay is about to expose. When Scarlet goes missing, things get really serious. A story of blackmail, corruption and exploding peacocks, Big Jessie is the new firecracker thriller from the author of the WHSmith Award-winning 'London Irish'.

'A rattling good yarn with a bagful of bizarre twists. This is someone who can tell a story.' Telegraph

'A funny, intelligent thriller that becomes progressively more serious as the body count rises.' Maxim

'Every page is packed with humour, a pintful of the blackest stuff.' Spectator