![]() ![]() ![]() Small presses not only showcase new writers, they also leave them free to ignore genre conventions. Perspective, you can easily see why crime has become a popular profession for marginal people with no trade, no education, no qualifications, no prospects, no future, no hope. If he knew them, Chris would say the same thing about Dashy, the clumsy mugger who sends him to the hospital, and Kevin, the tough punk who goads him into a vengeful act of violence. ordinary citizens, temporarily homeless or down on their luck.'' To Chris, a petty crook currently working in a liquor store, his fellow residents at the Y.M.C.A. Butįor my money, the real find in this series is SMALLTIME (Do-Not/Dufour, paper, $12.95), a quietly jolting first novel by Jerry Raine that offers an unsparing look at some sullen hoods and their dead-end lives in an economicallyÄepressed London suburb. ![]() ![]() FRESH BLOOD (Do-Not/Dufour, paper, $13.95), an anthology of noir fiction by young genre Turks, edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski, is a terrific introduction to these articulate and unpredictable voices. He Do-Not Press, an independent publisher with a mission to showcase next-wave British authors, has a new imprint called Bloodlines that extends the favor to crime Fresh Blood Edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski. ![]()
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