In the tradition of Ruth Rendell, Lynda la Plante, Frances Fyfield and Barbara Vine, Cut Short is a gripping psychological thriller that introduces DI Geraldine Steel, a woman whose past is threatening to collide with her future.

When DI Geraldine Steel relocates to the quiet rural town of Woolsmarsh, she expects to find her new home to be somewhere where nothing much ever happens; a space where she can battle her demons in private. But when she finds herself pitted against a twisted killer preying on local young women she quickly discovers how wrong she is...

By day, the park is a place for children's games, for people walking their dogs or taking a short cut to avoid the streets. But in the shadows a predator prowls, hunting for a fresh victim. When an unwitting bystander comes forward as a witness she quickly becomes the next object of his murderous obsessions - someone whom the killer must stop at all costs.

DI Geraldine Steel is locked into a race against time, determined to find the killer before they discover yet another naked corpse . But can she save the lives of the town's young women - or will Geraldine herself become the killer's ultimate trophy?

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The second in the detective series featuring DI Geraldine Steel

When a man dies in a gas explosion, the police suspect arson. The Murder Investigation Team are called in to investigate.

The case takes on a new and terrible twist when a local villain is viciously attacked. As the police enquiries lead from the expensive Harchester Hill estate to the local brothel, a witness dies in a hit-and-run. Was it coincidence - or cold-blooded murder?

The Murder Investigation Team has problems of its own – and so does Geraldine Steel. A shocking revelation threatens her peace of mind as the investigation races towards its dramatic climax.

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Hearing footsteps pounding along the street behind him he glanced back, fleetingly worried, then laughed because the street was deserted. All the same, he felt uneasy. Everything looked different in the dark.
Then he heard more footsteps approaching, and a hoarse voice called out.
Turning his head, he made out a figure hovering in the shadows and as it raised one arm, the barrel of a gun glinted in the moonlight! 

The dead body of unassuming David Lester is discovered in a dark side-street, and DI Geraldine Steel is plunged into another murder investigation.  The clues mount up along with the suspects, but with the death of another man in inexplicable circumstances, the case becomes increasingly complex.  As Geraldine investigates the seemingly unrelated crimes, she makes a shocking discovery about her birth mother.

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Pocket Essentials author Barry Forshaw discusses Brit Noir with  Sarah Ward and Yrsa Sigurdardottir

DOWD Crime Fiction (off Air)

Barry Forshaw, 'the walking encyclopedia of crime fiction', talking crime on the Guardian Books Podcast with Donna Leon, Duncan Campell & Claire Armitstead.

Barry Guardian Podcast

Ever wondered what kind of chat would come about if you got a barman, a comic book illustrator, a suffragette and the President of the United States of America in one room together?

OK, so that’s not *quite* what we did. But we did get four bestselling crime writers to imagine their alternate lives — and turns out that’s kind of close. In this exclusive 'Meet the Authors' podcast, No Exit extraordinaires Barry Forshaw, Howard Linskey, Robert Olen Butler and Leigh Russell cosy up to to bare all, pondering not only their parallel selves but their favourite places around the globe, the books that've most influenced their work and all things central to a writer’s life.

From Leigh’s adventures in the Seychelles to Robert’s love for London theatre, from Howard’s wrestling with the theme of betrayal to Barry’s rejection of a job offer from Stan Lee (we know - what?!), this is an extra special window into the minds of four truly cracking crime legends.

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Barry Forshaw is one of the UK’s leading experts on crime fiction and film. His latest books include Brit Noir, Euro Noir, Nordic Noir, British Crime Film and British Gothic Cinema. He writes for various national newspapers, edits Crime Time (www.crimetime.co.uk), and is a regular broadcaster.

Howard Linskey is the author of three novels in the David Blake crime series published by No Exit Press, The Drop, The Damage and The Dead. He is also the author of No Name Lane and Behind Dead Eyes, the first two books in a crime series set in the north east of England featuring journalists Tom Carney & Helen Norton, published by Penguin. In 2017 his stand alone novel, Hunting the Hangman, will be published by No Exit Press.

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, five other short story collections, sixteen novels, and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. His latest works from No Exit Press are Perfume River and Severance/Intercourse.

Leigh Russell is the author of the internationally bestselling Geraldine Steel series: Cut Short, Road Closed, Dead End, Death Bed, Stop Dead, Fatal Act, Killer Plan, and Murder Ring. Cold Sacrifice was the first in a spin off series featuring Ian Peterson and followed by Race to Death and Blood Axe.

NEP Presents: Meet the Authors

What happens when you gather Barry Forshaw, Howard Linskey, Robert Olen Butler and Leigh Russell over drinks? (Confession: water, these are tough times guys). We'll tell you what. A podcast filled with festive frivolity and cheery chat. We've discovered things about these authors even we didn't know! Grab your headphones and tune in.

No Exit Press Christmas Podcast

If, in the midst of this festive family season, the sacred, loving bond between Mr and Mrs Claus is something you hold dear to your heart—you might want to look away now.

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler gives us an exclusive reading from Intercourse, a collection of stream-of-consciousness vignettes laying bare the most flagrant and personal inner thoughts of fifty famous couples in between the sheets. Enter Santa, and an elf - Ingebergitta - who most certainly isn't his wife...

Robert Olen Butler: Intercourse

No Exit Press presents Words 'n' Music: with each podcast, a different author will be telling us about three pieces of literature and three pieces of music that changed their life.

Kicking us off is Andrée A. Michaud, author of the spellbinding new literary thriller, Boundary. Alongside her choices, she talks women in translation, life after awards and walking on the wild side...

Listen to her chosen songs, plus 10 more of her favourites, here:
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