When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station. Working from cassette tapes left beh[...]
A man's corpse is discovered in a Rotherhithe warehouse, chopped up, boiled to avoid identification, and bundled into five Waitrose carrier bags. Our nameless narrator from A14 - the 'Unexplained Deaths' division of the Met - is put on the case. Operating, as usual, with his wit and sheer nerve in p[...]
An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. On the same night, in the West End, a firearm blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part-owner of the seedy Parallel Club. The unnamed narrator, a sergeant in the Metropol[...]
Which is worse: A psychopathic killer or murderous corruption?
The second book in Derek Raymond's acclaimed Factory Series opens with the chilling discovery of a horribly butchered body abandoned in a warehouse by the Thames. It's obviously the work of a contract killer, but why would a professi[...]
Can you murder for love?
In the third novel of Derek Raymond's acclaimed Factory Series, the nameless detective visits a decrepit country house to look into the case of a disappeared woman.
It is, as always for the Detective Sergeant, a deeply unsettling investigation of love and damnation. [...]
»Ingen har kommit i närheten av att matcha Derek Raymonds stil eller den överväldigande känslan av galenskap i hans böcker.« THE TIMES
»Allt med Jag var Dora Suarez skriker av njutningen och smärtan i att gå för långt.« THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
»Helvetiskt mörkt och berör[...]
En psykopatisk mördare skär unga Dora Suarez i bitar och krossar huvudet på hennes äldre väninna. Samma kväll får Felix Roatta, delägare i den sjaskiga nattklubben Parallel, sitt huvud sönderskjutet i West End.
Den namnlöse berättaren, en kommissarie som arbetar på Metropolitan-polise[...]