An elusive serial sniper is loose in the dark, rain-swept streets of Vancouver, Canada. Detective Jack Willows and his new partner, the beautiful Claire Parker, are assigned the case which takes on an unexpected dangerous twist

'Terse characterization and screwed-up tension' - Observer All Jack Willows wants is a holiday—from work, from family, from life. But when you’re a cop, you’re never off the clock, and when he stumbles across the body of a young girl up in the mountains, he finds himself headed back to reality and the city of Vancouver more quickly than he’d hoped. Events become more tangled when Jack learns that in his absence his partner, Claire Parker, discovered the brutally murdered and mutilated body of a boy—a case that looks to be somehow connected to his own. Mannie Katz is a sleazy, two-bit low-life who fancies himself a professional killer. So when Felix hands him his first contract, for three teenagers, Mannie reckons it’ll be an easy job. But things rapidly start to spin out of his control, pushing him closer and closer to Vancouver’s finest. As the two detectives hunt for their killer, Mannie finds himself frantically trying to keep one step ahead… Praise for Laurence Gough ‘Jack Willows and Claire Parker…look to have the stamina for many future yarns’ — The Times ‘Terse characterization and screwed-up tension take this new author into the McBain class at one stride’ — Observer Laurence Gough resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, the city and its scenic surroundings providing the backdrop to his novels. A playwright as well as a novelist, he has had more than fifty plays broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while his fiction has garnered a number of awards, including Arthur Ellis Awards for Best First Novel and Best Crime Novel of the Year and an Author Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters. Death on a No. 8 Hook is the second of twelve books to feature Detectives Willows and Parker. It follows The Goldfish Bowl. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.

‘Bitter, bloody and brilliantly compulsive’ — Mail on Sunday A valuable heroin consignment is lost, dumped into English Bay by panicking couriers. Psychopathic millionaire Gary Silk is furious and will kill to reclaim it. As an example, one of the men responsible must be ‘executed’. Silk is on a mission to exact revenge and recklessly begins to make more enemies than ever with his increasingly cruel and bizarre behaviour... Al Paterson, a businessman facing bankruptcy, stumbles across the heroin by accident. Can he recoup his fortunes with some illicit dealing or is he out of his depth? As much as he needs to keep the discovery a secret, he also needs to confirm the quality of the drug and then he needs to find a buyer... A blood-stained car is found, abandoned. Willows and Parker are called in to investigate a possible homicide: there is evidence of a gunfight, but no apparent victim. Then a body is pulled out of the harbor … and a narcotics king, double-crossing henchmen, an amateur hustler and police are to converge in a shattering denouement. At times brutal and uncompromising, laced with black humour, Hot Shots is an action-packed read, a compelling crime novel from an award-winning author. Hot Shots is the third in Laurence Gough’s excellent Vancouver police series featuring Detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker, following Death on a No. 8 Hook and The Goldfish Bowl. Praise for Laurence Gough: ‘Jack Willows and Claire Parker…look to have the stamina for many future yarns’ — The Times ‘Terse characterization and screwed-up tension take this new author into the McBain class at one stride’ — Observer ‘Bitter, bloody and brilliantly compulsive’ — Mail on Sunday ‘Extremely expert … tersely-written, tightly-plotted winner’ — The Listener Laurence Gough resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, the city and its scenic surroundings providing the backdrop to his novels. A playwright as well as a novelist, he has had more than fifty plays broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while his fiction has garnered a number of awards, including Arthur Ellis Awards for Best First Novel and Best Crime Novel of the Year and an Author Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.

‘Gough’s work typically combines knotty, multi-stranded plots, picturesque villains and bit players, pungent humour, and trenchant prose’ - Times Literary Supplement Jack Willows and Claire Parker are investigating the death of Kenny Lee, a local owner of a Chinese newspaper. He was discovered encased in ice, posed in a Lotus position in Sun Yat-Sen Gardens. Such a prominent figure of the community, posed in such a manner, sparks outrage within the community. Can Willows and Parker solve the mystery before the leads run dry? Billy and Garret are low level criminals, experienced in car theft and stereo boosting. Unhappy with petty crimes, they are scheming for a more lucrative target. Grand armed robbery. Using their knowledge of the area and procuring the necessary weapons from local gangs, can they succeed in their new venture? Will the robbery succeed or will the plan backfire? Nancy Crown is a victim of carjacking. A terrifying ordeal that has left her emotionally confused. Why can’t she stop thinking about her assailant? Are the cigarette butts she locates in her garden each day from him scoping out the house? Or is her mind playing tricks on her? Surely it is just her imagination that is running wild… Seemingly unconnected individuals lives are entwined as the murder investigation reaches its dramatic conclusion. Serious Crimes is a cleverly written and fast paced crime novel, full of twists to keep you guessing until the last page. Praise for Laurence Gough ‘Bitter, bloody, and brilliantly compulsive’ - Mail on Sunday ‘Gough is a real find…For anyone into hard-boiled American fiction, try heading north of the border for a treat’ - Vox ‘Gough’s work is laced with acid humour and a tight-as-a-chokehold prose. If he lived in the U.S., he’d already be a superstar’ - Daily Post (Liverpool) /em> ‘Gough is one of the best crime writers in the country…wickedly twisted…wild and wingy rollercoaster rides’ - Toronto Sun ‘Gough is one of the most inventively reliable bloodsmiths in the trade. His plots and characters are strong and convincing, his mordant humour never forced, the action violent but believable’ - The Times ‘This pacy new thriller buffs it up new’ - The Times (on The Goldfish Bowl) ‘Terse characterization and screwed-up tension take this new author into the McBain class at one stride’ - Observer (on The Goldfish Bowl) ‘Laurence Gough’s first novel…rips the reader with the force of a Winchester .460 magnum fired at arm’s length… Gough’s plotting is fast-paced and confident… His style is tense and tight as a trigger’ - Washington Post Laurence Gough lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver. He is the author of twelve Willows and Parker mysteries. The Goldfish Bowl, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada. Other is the series: Death on a No. 8 Hook; Hot Shots, winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year; Serious Crimes; Accidental Deaths; Fall Down Easy; Killers; Heartbreaker; Memory Lane; Karaoke Rap; Shutterbug; and Funny Money . His international thriller, Sandstorm, won the Author Award (fiction) from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in 1991. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.

“Icy, exhilarating comedy of murders…A cast of malcontents to cherish…Funny, pungent, exciting and original.” – Literary Review A young woman is shot dead. Her boyfriend is the only witness but refuses to co-operate. Then he too is tortured and murdered. Hired by an ex-con with a bankroll almost as large as his desire for vengeance, pro hitman Frank Wright is determined to whack Parker no matter what the cost. While Parker and Willows investigate the apparently motiveless shooting of a young woman whose suspiciously uncooperative boyfriend is the only witness, Frank gets set to make his move. Then a second, even more bizarre murder takes place, and things get hotter than a muzzle blast … Accidental Deaths is the fifth novel featuring Vancouver homicide detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker. Praise for Accidental Deaths: “This is vintage Gough … seasoned with a strong sense of place and peppered with clever observations … escapist reading at its best.” – Gazette (Montreal) “Icy, exhilarating comedy of murders…A cast of malcontents to cherish…Funny, pungent, exciting and original.” – Literary Review “Start reading and you won’t put it down until the final page.” – Globe and Mail “Tightly drawn…Grips like a snow tire.” — Saturday Telegraph “Sweet potatoes and sour incompetence round off a kooky, double-stranded story.” – Sunday Times “Dizzying action and a chilling array of heavies—Laurence Gough cranks up the tension to the top notch…Totally compulsive reading.” – Daily Post (U.K.) Laurence Gough, who lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver, has written eleven Willows and Parker mysteries in addition to Accidental Deaths. Winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada; Death on a No. 8 Hook; Hot Shots, winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year; Serious Crimes; Fall Down Easy; Killers; Heartbreaker; Memory Lane; Karaoke Rap; Shutterbug; and Funny Money. His international thriller, Sandstorm, won the Author Award (fiction) from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in 1991. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.

Greg is a coke addict, weapons freak, professional heartbreaker, master of disguise – and bank robber. But his latest hold-up goes there is a violent fight and a man is killed. Greg makes his escape with the victim’s briefcase, to find it full of not money, but computer print-outs.Willows and Parker are handed what rapidly becomes a hideously complex investigation. The dead man turns out to be a plainclothes Panamanian police officer, in Vancouver for unspecified reasons. It also proves impossible to build up any sort of profile of the chameleon-like killer…for what Willows and Parker can’t know is that the man they’re after is motivated by far more than a simple love of money.

It is mid-winter when the body of Dr. Gerard Roth is found floating in the killer-whale pool in Vancouver’s main aquarium. Although he is known to enjoy tempting fate by swimming amongst the more dangerous mammals in the aquarium's collection, there are signs that he met his death at human hands. Detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, feckless, unemployed actor Chris Spacy believes he actually witnessed Roth’s body being dumped in the pool, but he’s not exactly sure his blurred memory wasn’t a drug-induced hallucination. With blackmail on his mind, he goes after the likely killer – an action that provokes further bloodshed, and complicates an already-murky case for the two detectives. Killers, which marks the seventh appearance of detectives Willows and Parker, is a strong addition to Laurence Gough’s much-acclaimed and award-winning series.

Shelley has it made. Not only is he tall, dark, and handsome, but he is blessed with a great body, a decided comfort to someone who truly believes that “skin deep is plenty deep enough.” Moreover, he has arranged his life in a way that affords him maximum enjoyment for minimum effort. He moves from one classy house-sitting job to another, supporting himself with petty theft and the occasional bouncing job in downtown Vancouver bars, using his spare time to work on his tan, develop his pecs, and polish his snazzy Datsun SX300. But on one fine hot day in August, Shelley makes two big mistakes. First, he breaks into a car belonging to off-duty police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker – and he lets himself be seen doing so by an old beachcomber with a good memory. Second, he picks up a particularly gorgeous beach-bunny named Bo, red-haired, long-limbed, and strong-willed, who works in real estate and says she’d just love to see where Shelley lives. That same night, Detectives Willows and Parker are called to a murder scene in a luxury penthouse condominium. The victim – the real-estate agent handling the sale of the condo – was, everyone agrees, a bit of a louse, an enthusiastic-though-overconfident womanizer, and a pretty poor salesman. Recently, however, he’s had money to burn, and he had been receiving visits from a sexy redhead. Shelley, meanwhile, is astonished to find how quickly Bo has wormed her way into his car, his house, and his life – but there are clouds on the horizon. Former “business associates” of Bo’s want her back, and are willing to play very rough to get her. When events bring everyone together, the results are explosive.

Jack Willows and Claire Parker are on the case again… This time a local police officer has been murdered. Was his unusual sexual appetite the cause of his demise? Or is this case deeper than it first appears? Is it a jilted lover? A con with a grudge? Or is there a corrupt cop within their midst? Meanwhile, Ross Larson has just been released from jail. Inside he developed a friendship with fellow inmate Garret, who was serving 25 years for robbery and murder. Two hundred thousand dollars was never recovered from his latest heist. Did Ross receive the necessary clues from Garret, before his untimely death from cancer, to locate the money? Or is it lost forever? Struggling to adapt to his release, Ross connects with Shannon, Garret’s girlfriend, in an effort to maintain some familiarity with his life. But is Shannon genuinely interested in Ross, or is it just a ploy to retrieve the missing cash? Ross must decide whether the search for the money is worth the risk of returning to jail, or to write it off forever. Follow Ross as he battles his inner turmoil of greed, conscience and paranoia in what is another explosive episode in the Willows and Parker crime series.

Vancouver’s streets are awash with unusually pure heroin. Addicts are dying like flies, but in this port city at the far end of the continent, junkies are a dime a baker’s dozen, and nobody’s counting. Then several dealers join the parade of the newly dead – and all of them worked for ancient crime kingpin Jake Cappalletti. The cops sniff a pattern. Then there’s April. She was lap-dancing when she met Wayne. He swept her off her feet at the end of her shift, just as soon as he’d finished dumping her parasitic ex-boyfriend into the trunk of his Caddy. Part of Wayne’s appeal is his raw ambition. He intends to replace Jake. April wants to be a contributing factor in her new man’s climb to the top. When the killing stops, Wayne’s going to need a fall guy, somebody to play multiple-murderer-for-a-day. So April kidnaps Lewis, a semi-successful con artist, and teaches him some very bad habits. Wayne’s so busy with murder and mayhem that he neglects April, and pretty soon she starts to believe she might be falling in love with Lewis. But, as usual, she could be wrong. Meanwhile, as the homicide squad engages in an intensive hunt for the most prolific killer in the city’s history, police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker have other – more personal – concerns. Willows, finally divorced, is free to marry Parker. But sometimes freedom’s just another word for plenty left to lose. Claire wants children; Jack already has two. As the investigation heats up, Willows believes that he and Parker won’t have time to spare for nagging domestic issues. Like April, he could be wrong.

Chantal ran away from home to escape her abusive father. Now she’s on the run again, wanted by the police as a “person of interest” in the suspicious death of her equally abusive pimp boyfriend. Hector and Carlos do piecework for ancient Vancouver kingpin Jake Cappalletti. They’re on their way to Jake’s mini-mansion with ten million bogus U.S. dollars destined for the unsophisticated Russian market when Jake is felled by a stroke. Marty, Jake’s heir apparent, fears a palace revolt. He tells Carlos and Hector to hold on to the cash until Jake recovers or the situation stabilizes. But Carlos is the kind of guy who’d use a pair of bolt-cutters to liberate a Safeway shopping cart rather than temporarily spend a quarter. And Hector is the kind of guy who’d risk paying a hooker like Chantal with Jake’s counterfeit twenties rather than spend his own hard-earned cash. Now Chantal’s running from the cops and Carlos and Hector. Detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker are searching for Chantal, but they also have problems of their own. Jack’s daughter is in her first year at U.B.C. So far, all she’s learned is how to party. Parker, watching Jack’s kids grow up, is acutely aware of the swift passage of time. She’s wanted children for years, and has finally reached the point where she isn’t willing to wait any longer. Fast, wisecracking, and full of action, Funny Money is sure to appeal to both new readers and to loyal fans of Laurence Gough.

Colin McDonald is relentlessly rich, a property developer made good on other people’s suffering... Maybe that’s why everybody who meets him, loathes him. So when McDonald’s brutalised corpse is found in his Vancouver apartment, the local police have a novel problem – there are almost too many suspects, too many people who wanted him dead. Homicide detective Jack Willows is assigned to the case, but Jack has worries of his own. His wife has not adjusted to motherhood in the way that he anticipated, and his two older children are uncomfortably distant. Across Vancouver, individuals and families are grappling with everyday problems, just like Jack. Single mother Jan’s tattoo business is going under and her husband has just finished a prison sentence. He wants her back, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen. Too bad for him that Jan’s interest in him has faded. She’s head over heels in love with Sandy, even though all she knows about him is that he’s a few crucial years younger than she is and shares her interest in fast money. But to pull off a robbery, they need somebody to drive the getaway car. Jan’s husband Harvey is their man – and so the plot is hatched. What Harvey and Jan don’t know is that Sandy isn’t the naive kid he seems, and that he has a nasty surprise planned for the both of them. As Willows hunts high and low for McDonald's killer, encountering desperate and terrifying figures along the way, Jan’s plot to secure her future continues to unravel… A must read for lovers of hard-boiled crime fiction, A Cloud of Suspects is a fast-paced tale that ingeniously weaves snapshots of Vancouver life into a compelling, unforgettable mystery. Praise for Laurence Gough ‘Bitter, bloody, and brilliantly compulsive’ - Mail on Sunday ‘Gough’s work typically combines knotty, multi-stranded plots, picturesque villains and bit players, pungent humour, and trenchant prose’ - Times Literary Supplement ‘Gough is a real find…For anyone into hard-boiled American fiction, try heading north of the border for a treat’ - Vox ‘Gough is one of the most inventively reliable bloodsmiths in the trade. His plots and characters are strong and convincing, his mordant humour never forced, the action violent but believable’ - The Times Laurence Gough lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver, British Columbia, the city and its scenic surroundings providing the backdrop to his novels. A playwright as well as a novelist, he has had more than fifty plays broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while his fiction has garnered a number of awards, including Arthur Ellis Awards for Best First Novel and Best Crime Novel of the Year and an Author Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters.