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Post by benedictjjones on May 7, 2011 16:05:36 GMT 1
picked this up yesterday for £3 in a second hand book shop. hadn't managed to get around to reading any Timlin as I wasn't sure he'd be 'my kind of thing' but this collection of shorts and a novella are absoloutely brilliant. most of the shorts feature Timlin's south London private eye Nick Sharman (there was a series of Sharman filmed for ITV with Clive Owen in the mid-nineties but im yet to see them). A couple of the stories and the Novella reminded me of Shaun Hutson's 'Exit Wounds', but these were written before that came out..., and the other stories show that Timlin is superior in style. proper pulpy, violent PI stories set in SE London. I'll be keeping my eyes open for the Sharman novels now.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 29, 2011 13:16:00 GMT 1
"A Street that rhymed at 3AM" bought and read this a couple of days ago. Timlin (and Sharman) on top form. Yardies, a case full of coke, a ton of guns, Sharmans ex-wife blown to smithereens and to top it off it's Christmas. really enjoyed this.
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Post by benedictjjones on Feb 16, 2012 13:53:23 GMT 1
grabbed 'Pretend we're dead' yesterday and have already remembered why i like the sharman books so much! Nick Sharman has just married dawn (ex-stripper) and is looking into a case of a supposedly dead rock star who has sent a letter asking for his millions in unpaid royalties... more as I read it
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Post by stu on Aug 26, 2012 8:49:30 GMT 1
Used to read Timlin back in the '90s. Read one of the more recent Sharmans -- All the Empty Places -- last year and it was okay but nothing special. The earlier books seem to be better so I picked up a few of them to read when I get the chance.
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Post by benedictjjones on Sept 6, 2012 22:17:44 GMT 1
^stu, have you read his post apocalypse novel 'i spied a pale horse'?
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Post by stu on Sept 7, 2012 7:07:30 GMT 1
No, I haven't. Any good?
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Post by benedictjjones on Sept 7, 2012 15:27:54 GMT 1
depends on how much you like his style - quite 'sharmanesque'
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Post by stu on Sept 8, 2012 15:00:13 GMT 1
For the moment I'll probably stick to the handful of Timlin novels I've already got. Not even sure when I'm going to get the chance to read them, let alone any extra stuff by him. That said, I did recently pick up The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action which features a Timlin short, so hopefully I'l read that soon.
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