Sorry for the technical difficulties but it finally looks like the site is up and running again.
Which is good news because my new book A Dark Redemption is coming out on Feb 16th.
I’ve started a seperate page here for A Dark Redemption. This will feature background material on Jack Carrigan and Geneva Miller as well as on some of the issues and topics in the novel.
Hope you enjoy it.
Hi there,
Sorry it’s been so long since the last update but I had many technical issues and even more non-technical ones.
A DARK REDEMPTION
My new novel, A Dark Redemption, will be published by Faber and Faber in Febuary 2012. It’s the first of a London based police procedural series featuring DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller. I’ll be posting much more about this soon, but in the meantime you can read more here:
Thanks for reading,
Stav
A great one at The Independent and another at Reactions to Reading
I’ve reviewed a couple of recent Dylan books here
What are your top five Bob Dylan albums? I’d love to know.
Mine are:
Blood on the Tracks
Blonde on Blonde
Time out of Mind
Desire
Planet Waves
Dylan’s website
A great review by the acclaimed Laura Wilson
I am very thrilled to be appearing at Rough Trade West (just off the Portobello Road) as part of World Record Store Day. I will be reading from The Black Monastery and signing (not singing, I’m afraid) at 3:30pm, just after Ian Broudie’s set. There will be great bands playing all day in store as well as limited edition one-day-only singles by the likes of Tom Waits, Magnolia Electric Co and others. It should be fun.
Two great crime sites, Shots and It’s a Crime, feature reviews of The Black Monastery. Both are great sites for anyone interested in crime fiction and I heartily recommend them (even if they hadn’t liked the book!).
Another review from today’s Daily Express.
And the great folks at Euro Crime are giving away copies of The Black Monastery in their competition.
Another review from the great BookGeeks site.
A great review by the kind folks at Crime Squad
I am going to appearing at the Laugharne Weekend festival this coming Saturday (4th March 2009) with Willy Vlautin, novelist and frontman of the band Richmond Fontaine. We’re both going to be reading from our new books and interviewing each other and maybe, if we’re lucky, he’ll sing some songs too!
A spooky and strange trailer for the Italian edition of The Black Monastery!
The Black Monastery is published by Faber and Faber on April 2nd, 2009
“Stav Sherez is one of my favourite living crime writers. The Black Monastery is superb; thrilling and thought provoking in equal measure. It’s an unholy alliance between John Fowles, Italo Calvino, JG Ballard and William Burroughs at their most inspired. Read it and you might think twice about going to a Greek island this summer”.
- Nick Stone (author of Mr Clarinet and King of Swords)
“A scorching read, perfect for the train, plane or any other conveyance where you’re not doing the driving. A bloody literary mystery (very bloody at times) set among the Greek Islands with not one but two writers embroiled in murky religious goings on and the usual elixir that comes with heat, sex and money. A terrific read, bursting with ideas, that leaves one jealous of the young Mr Sherez’s talent…”
- Adrian Mckinty (author of Hidden River and The Dead Yard)
Synopsis:
When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery. Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, and a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island’s history that it has tried hard to forget. There is a lot at stake – the island’s lucrative tourist trade and the open secret of the drugs trade that goes hand in hand with the hordes of mainly young British holiday makers. As Nikos begins his investigation, two British crime writers arrive on the island. The best selling Kitty Carson, on a break from the pressures of writing and her strained relationship, and Jason an aspiring writer whose aim is to strike up a friendship with her and convince her to help him get published. As the two writers are thrown together in an unexpected way, another murder is committed and Jason and Kitty are drawn into an investigation of their own. As they discover more about the island’s dark past what began as a diversion becomes a dangerous pursuit . . .
The estimable Nick Stone asked me some questions for his blog. Keep checking his blogs for Q and As with more authors.