Chris Niles – författare

NEW YORK, NEW YORK . . . Cyrus is a millionaire recluse. Oh, and a serial killer. His first victims are Gus and Susie Niedermeyer, newlywed out-of-towners looking for a home in Manhattan - a place where the vacancy rate makes the last lifeboat off the Titantic look accommodating. Tye is a beautiful young woman from Notting Hill - 'desperately seeking wealthy sugar daddy with luxury loft apartment'. Quinn is a handsome Irishman and a writer who doesn't write. He's currently living with his brother - until said brother seduces his girlfriend . . . Marion Neidermeyer is a determined mother dead set on hunting down her vanished son and daughter-in-law. Cyrus, Quinn, Tye and Marion - all floating through New York, all about to collide in this brilliant black comedy that'll have you giggling and grimacing by turns . . . IT'S A WONDERFUL TOWN.

A British journalist with a taste for trouble finds more than he bargained for in this slick, hard-boiled mystery debut.Radio reporter Sam Ridley is a drunk, but not too drunk to spot a good story. Elaine York''s body was found in one of London''s less salubrious neighborhoods, and her baby is missing. As the first man on the scene, Ridley''s ahead of the news pack—but not for long.Within hours, one wrong word puts his job as a radio journalist in jeopardy. He''s demoted to a researcher''s job in a hard-drinking, hard-living, hard-news reporter''s definiteion of hell: Female Am, the station''s daily women''s program. But now he may have the break he needs. A man called Shark is on the phone, ready to spill the goods on Elaine''s death—for a price. And when Ridley dives into the murky waters Shark calls home, he''s going to find himself face-to-face with loss, love, and one monster of a car repair bill.

British radio reporter Sam Ridley finds himself accused of a crime in the land down under when he travels to Sydney, Australia in this witty, wicked mystery.