Lost

by Russell James

Two crime stories from the man Ian Rankin once called ‘The Godfather of British Noir’, early stories from the years when Russell James was establishing himself as ‘one of the best of Britain’s darker crime writers’ (as the Times called him). The first is the author’s only crime story to feature a detective, and the second, although a tale of prison life, is in lighter vein.The title story, Lost, introduces the only detective to be given a lead role in a Russell James story (a beguiling character, he is the ex-priest turned detective Joe Venables, who is trawling south London to find a missing daughter). The second story, What’s My Name?, is in characteristic first-person style, but is an amusing (and true) story recounted to the narrator inside a British jail.

51 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2012

About the author

A British author of some 2 dozen books, half of which are crime novels, Russell is an ex-chairman of the Crime Writers Association. He has written several non-fiction works and half a dozen historical novels. He is currently working on the third book in his Croome Victorian saga, the first of which is AFTER SHE DROWNED, telling of forbidden love in the Victorian Church, and the second THE CAPTAIN'S WARD, telling of a young girl's coming of age in Victorian Britain.