BLOODLINES Crime Imprint from the Do-Not Press
That Angel Look 19th September, 1997
The Hackman Blues 22nd August, 1997
Fresh Blood II 21st November, 1997
Because She Thought She Loved Me 21st November, 1997
Shrouded 18th April, 1997
I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass 18th April, 1997
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That Angel Look by Mike Ripley
The eighth in the highly-acclaimed and award winning Angel series...
A chance encounter (in a pub, of course) lands street-wise, cab-driving Angel the ideal job as an all-purpose assistant to a trio of young and very sexy fashion designers. But things are nowhere near as straightforward as they should be and it soon becomes apparent that no-one is telling the truth - least of all Angel!
Double-cross turns to triple-cross and Angel finds himself set up by friend and enemy alike. This time, Angel could really meet his match…
"The outrageous, rip-roarious Mr Ripley is an abiding delight..." Colin Dexter
"I never read Ripley on trains, planes or buses, He makes me laugh and it annoys the other passengers," Minette Walters
Mike Ripley is the author of eight novels in the award-winning Angel series and co-edits (with Maxim Jakubowski) the Fresh Blood anthologies promoting new British crime writing. He is crime books critic for The Daily Telegraph and for Publishing News, but never gave up his day job in the brewing industry. He is currently adapting Angel In Arms for television and vows that That Angel Look will be his last novel. Mike Ripley has won two Crime Writer's Association "Last Laugh" awards.

The Hackman Blues by Ken Bruen
"...I haven't taken my medication for the past week. If I couldn't go a few days without the lithium, I was in deep shit. I'd gotten the job ten days earlier and it entailed a whack of pub-crawling. Booze and medication is the worst of songs.
Sing that!
A job of pure simplicity. Find a white girl in Brixton. Piece of cake. What I should have done is doubled my medication and lit a candle to St Jude - maybe a lot of candles."
Add to the mixture a lethal ex-con, an Irish builder obsessed with Gene Hackman, the biggest funeral Brixton has ever seen, and what you get is the Blues like they've never been sung before.
Ken Bruen's powerful second novel is a gritty and grainy mix of crime noir and Urban Blues that greets you like a mugger, stays with you like a razor-scar.
The Hackman Blues is Ken Bruen's best yet.
GQ described his debut novel as: "The most startling and original crime novel of the decade."
"If Martin Amis was writing crime novels, this is what he would hope to write." - Books in Ireland
Ken Bruen hails from the west of Ireland and lives in south London. His past includes drunken brawls in Vietnam, a stretch of four months in a South American gaol, a PhD in metaphysics and one of the most acclaimed debut crime novels of the '90's - Rilke on Black. he was a finalist for the First Blood award for Best First Crime Novel of '95 and was a front runner in the Big Issue's 'alternative' Booker shortlist. He insists that The Hackman Blues is better.

Fresh Blood II by Mike Ripley & Maxim Jakubowski (eds.) 
The Second Wave... Up Close and Dangerous
The first Fresh Blood anthology celebrated the "articulate and unpredictable voices" (New York Times) Of the New Wave of British crime writers.
Fresh Blood 2 brings in a second wave of "crime writing with attitude" from some of the brightest talents of the '90s.
The mood is often dark, cruel and violent, sometimes funny, but always sharp. There are few detectives - certainly none of the conventional kind - hardly any neat moral solutions, and no bodies in any libraries.
What you get are murderers, victims, thieves, con-men, gamblers, adulterers and contract killers. Stories, with introductions from the authors, from the cream of British crime writers.
John Baker, Christopher Brookmyre, Ken Bruen, Carol Anne Davis, Christine Green, Lauren Henderson, Charles Higson,  Maxim Jakubowski, Phil Lovesey, Mike Ripley, Mary Scott, Iain Sinclair, John Tilsley, John Williams, RD Wingfield

Because She Thought She Loved Me by Maxim Jakubowski
The course of true love doesn't run easy when your husband is a powerful pornographer who controls most of the shady side of the Internet. And when a tender love affair runs out of control, desperate measures are needed to stop the darkness engulfing its frantic protagonists.
Because She Thought She Loved Me offers a thrilling descent into the heart of sexual madness, moving in overdrive from London's West End, via the sinister private clubs of Paris, to the no-holds-barred illegal strip-joints of New York. Maxim Jakubowski continues his daring exploration of the night side of sex in a suspenseful tale full of memorable characters and sharp emotions.
"The King of the Erotic Thriller!” Crime Time
What the critics said about It's You That I Want to Kiss...
"An unholy mixture of Jim Thompson and American Psyche"  Time Out
"Sexy, tough and gritty..."  Merchant of Menace (Canada)
"it memorably evokes the ghosts of Cain and Hammett and delivers some of the scariest writing since American Psyche" City Life (UK)
What the critics said about Life in the World of Women…
"The hard sexy edge of Henry Miller and the redeeming grief of Jack Kerouac. A first class collection."  Mystery Scene.
"As hardboiled as Hammett. " Locus

Shrouded by Carol Anne Davis
Taut and enthralling debut novel from a gifted new writer. Douglas likes women quiet women; the kind he deals with at the mortuary. Douglas meets Marjorie, unemployed, gaining weight and losing confidence. She talks and laughs to cover up her shyness, but Douglas needs a lover who'll stay deadly still. Driven by lust and fear, he finds a way to make women remain excitingly silent and inert, and then needs to blank out the details of their unplanned deaths. But only Marjorie can fulfil his growing sexual hunger. He studies his textbooks to find a way...
Shrouded is a powerful and accomplished debut, tautly-plotted, dangerously erotic and vibrating with tension and suspense. It deserves to propel Carol Anne Davis to thte forefront of young British writers.
Carol Anne Davis lives in Edinburgh and has been a full-time writer since 1990. She's written about sex and death for adult and horror magazines and produced how-to modules for a well known writing correspondence course. Her short stories have won first, second and third prizes in national competitions and have appeared in several multi-author anthologies.

I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass by Paul Charles
Peter O'Browne, managing director of Camden Town Records, is missing. Is his disappearance connected with a mysterious fire that ravages his north London home? And just who was using his credit card in darkest Dorset?
Although up to his neck in other cases - including a sex murder and a particularly vicious attack on an old woman - Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy and his team investigate, plumbing the hidden depths of London's music industry, turning up chart-rigging scams, blackmail and worse.
I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass is a detective story with a difference. Part whodunnit, part howdunnit and part love story, it features a unique method of murder, a  plot with more twists and turns than the road from Kingsmarkham to St Mary Mead, and characters that practically explode off the page.
Paul Charles is a prominent music business figure: as co-owner of the London-based Asgard agency and promotions company, he works with artists like Elvis Costello, Ray Davies, Nanci Griffith and Nick Lowe.

 Fresh Blood: The Cream of Britain’s New Wave of Crime Writers
Edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski
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British crime fiction sheds its cosy and well-ordered image with this provocative collection of writing from the cream of the country’s new wave of crime authors.
There are no bodies in the library, few conventional policemen and no neat moral endings.
Fresh Blood reflects the work of a new generation of writers whose fiction deals with real crime committed by real criminals.
They are crimes of passion, crimes of betrayal, dark and mindless violence, robberies that go horribly wrong and some that go horribly right.
But be warned: these streets can be very mean indeed. So fasten your seatbelt and follow the signs provided by:
John Harvey, Russell James, Derek Raymond, Mark Timlin, Ian Rankin, Denise Danks, Mike Ripley, Chaz Brenchley, Joe Canzius, Stella Duffy, Nicholas Blincoe, Graeme Gordon, John B Spencer and Maxim Jakubowski

About The Do-Not Press ... by Jim Driver
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Here at The Do-Not Press, we really do get excited about books. And that's been the case ever since we debuted in October 1994 with Rock Talk, the eclectic collection of jottings on and around the subject of Rock 'n' Roll.
Back then, The Do-Not Press was a one-man, non-profit-making concern (though that wasn't really the idea), run from a cramped one-bedroom flat in leafy south London. I've always thought us more a cousin to those radical independent record labels of the '70s and '80s, than just another publishing house where books are treated as units, before being 'remaindered' or sold off for wall-insulation, after indecently short shelf-lives.
I may be biased, but I'm sure our small (but perfectly-formed) Spring List is well worth the enthusiasm we're lavishing on it. Aside from the joys of the main list, our Bloodlines crime imprint is going from strength to strength, and I can assure you of more very special books, right across the board. The wide range of styles and subjects we publish surprises even me, but it does help to keep the fever-level high.

"They may be a maverick among fiction publishers now, but I'll take a bet that the Ellroys, Moselys, Leonards, Dibdins - maybe even the Hammetts and Chandlers - of the Twenty-first Century will be making their debut on such a list in the next few years."  Mike Ripley of The-Do-Not-Press Crime imprint Bloodlines