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C.J. Howell

PART OF THE BLACK SPRING CRIME SERIES ENDORSED BY UK GIANTS OF CRIME FICTION INCLUDING IAN RANKIN AND LEE CHILD

Bolivia. 1991. A soldier arrives in the small town of Uyuni. A place where people endure rather than enjoy. Survive than live.The soldier knows they’re coming for him. Hunting him down so they can deal their own brand of justice.He needs to get out. To make it to the border and escape what is waiting for him.He’s prepared to do anything to survive.Even kill.This is noir fiction at its finest. With characters that you will root for, heartbreak and breathtaking writing, this is a story that will linger in reader’s minds long after you’ve turned the final page.

Black Spring Crime

The Salt Cutter

J K Nottingham

It Takes a Killer . . .

Foster is not Jasper’s father. He’s the assassin who killed his family. Jasper was eight years old when he was kidnapped and raised by a killer. Not only raised . . . trained.

To Raise a Killer . . .

Jasper has now been a trained assassin for decades. Not only does he kill for a living, he has continued in Foster’s footsteps – raising a ‘family' of his own. Lost souls of the departed. Children who should be dead. Saved by Jasper. 

To Raise a Killer . . . 

Now, Jasper must contend with the imminent return of his most accomplished protégé, Gulliver. He decides to tell him everything - his life, how he came to be the man he is now, and what has happened to the family since he left. Only, there is someone else out there determined to stop Jasper and find the lost and missing. And they'll stop at nothing to bring an end to what Jasper has built.

Cormac McCarthy meets North-East England in this unforgettable novel, with a fresh and exciting voice from a debut author.

The Black Spring Press Group

Jasper's Brood