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Hard Evidence |  | Author: Mark Pearson
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 5501
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1
ISBN: 0099515776
EAN: 9780099515777
ASIN: 0099515776
Publication Date: January 29, 2009
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 A gripping, first rate crime thriller March 9, 2009
L. Butler
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
MARK PEARSON'S HARD EVIDENCE is hard boiled London Noir from a new writer in the genre - but one who looks set to stay. It's an impressive debut launching a really strong character. DI Jack Delaney, really puts the black into black Irish. Based out of a fictional White City police station Delaney is an unashamedly unreconstructed copper. The world he inhabits is more akin to a post modern Chandler's mean streets than the procedural beats of a Frost or Thorne. Delaney is a dangerously violent, functioning drunk, who's world view is seen through the bloodshot eyes of a man responsible for his wife's own murder. Darkly charismatic Delaney would seem to have no trouble finding a decent kind of woman to salve his troubled heart but he doesn't want saving - instead Delaney finds solace in the arms of prostitutes, the charms of Irish whiskey and the balm of a toot of cocaine. Delaney's London is a seriously screwed up place and if it needs someone as equally screwed up to police its dangerous streets then Jack Delaney seems more than qualified. This is a cracking first novel, the pace never flags, the dialogue is as sharp as a cut throat razor and the stories of a murdered prostitute and a missing girl come together seamlessly amidst the emotional train wreck of DI Delaney's life. Just like the other reviewers I am really looking to the next one in the series coming out this Summer - but the title seems to have been changed from Blood Line to Blood Work.
Excellent debut novel March 15, 2009
Mr. N. P. Cornell
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Great to see a new writter in the genre. Mark pearson has created a character in D.I Delaney who would easily convert to the small screen. The book is a real page turner from the start and the murky uderlife of west London is well set against the turbulent world of Delaney. Prostitues and Irish whiskey there may be but this book is far from cliched and I look forward to the new release. I thoroughly enjoyed the tales of the rough talking D.I. Hopefully more to come.
br /Excellent, thoroughly recommened.
Hard Evidence May 19, 2009
Belfast Dave (Northern Ireland)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I purchased this book mostly because of the reviews on this page, and also because I have have grown tired of reading endless "American" crime fiction, where sometimes it feels as if I have read the same story over, and over, again.
br /And what a treat. As much as I adore Mark Billingham's London based Thorne novels, Mark Pearson has just knocked him off my number one, favourite crime writer(s), perch!
br /An absolute descriptive, gripping and fantastic read. Don't hesitate if you are uncertain about buying this debut novel from a new author, just do it!!!
A mean cop for the mean streets February 18, 2009
Mr. R. Brooking (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hard Evidence introduces a new, hard boiled copper in the shape of whiskey drenched, smart talking maverick, Detective Inspector Jack Delaney. Trying to solve the murder of a prostitute, Delaney's investigation into the underbelly of modern London cracks along with the speed of a 45 automatic being fired into a corpse. But the more that Delaney delves into the seedier side of life in the city, the more his own dark soul is exposed.
br /You wouldn't want him marrying your daughter, but if you're in trouble, Delaney's the man you'd want by your side.
Gripping story March 20, 2009
Hallgerd Hendricks (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Action, suspense, violence and booze are all here in this fast-paced thriller. A very good debut!
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