MADE IT INTO THE HARD BOILED CHARTS AGAIN!

Jings!

The Bumble's End made it into the charts again.

Reached the dizzy heights of No. 38 in the UK Hard Boiled chart!

Slipped a notch or two now but what the hell!

AMAZON USA
AMAZON UK

The Bumble's End by Jimmy Bain $2.99 / £1.91
Crime with Dark Humour.

ABOVE MICKEY SPILLANE AND JAMES ELLROY!

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THE BUMBLE'S END

made it into the crime charts this week!  

Let's see it there next week as well.

Excerpt from The Bumble's End

SUBTLE CHANGE TO COVER NOW CHRISTMAS IS OVER!
Can you spot what it is?


Excerpt from THE BUMBLE'S END

We surveyed the purple walls and the king size bed with its leopard skin headboard and bed cover. A cat o’nine tails hung from the bedpost.

‘Christ! Talk about coitus interruptus!’ said the Bumble. He sat up in bed resplendent in a white singlet that needed the Daz doorstep challenge. I guess we were it. I threw a Marlboro to him then lit my own.

He stuck the cig in his mouth. ‘Got a light then?’ he said, unabashed by our entrance.

‘Sure,’ I said and strolled over to the bed. I took out the can of lighter fluid and sprinkled it over the bedclothes covering his fat carcass.

‘Hey! Whit the fuck are you doing?’ He attempted to get out of the bed.
I pushed him back and struck a match. ‘Move, and your chestnuts get toasted,’ I said. ‘You almost got me and your brother killed, you fucker! Switching the gold bars and loading the gun with blanks – that your idea of a laugh?’

‘You’re still here aren’t you?’

TARTAN NOIR

Tartan Noir is a term coined by US crime writer, James Elroy, who used the term 'The King of Tartan Noir' to describe Ian Rankin.

Wikipedia says: Tartan Noir draws on the traditions of Scottish literature, being strongly influenced by James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These works dwell on the duality of the soul; the nature of good and evil; issues of redemption, salvation and damnation amongst others. The Scottish concept of the "Caledonian antisyzygy", the duality of a single entity, is a key driving force in Scottish literature, and it appears especially prominently in the Tartan Noir genre.

Jimmy Bain's darkly humorous novels fit this category because the Narrator of the books (the man with no name) has a strong moral streak despite his tendency to flippancy in the face of evil. And though he pokes fun at all forms of religion, it is the funpoking of a man who essentially wants to believe in something beyond the physical.



THE BUMBLE'S END will soon be joined by THE LONG DROP GOODBYE as an ebook.

NEW CHRISTMAS COVER: THE BUMBLE'S END!

Read an Excerpt from THE BUMBLE'S END

A tale of greed, death and toffees in the run up to Christmas!

Went up the charts!

Briefly!

For a few precious hours I was in the Amazon.co.uk Humour Charts.

Ah, but it didn't last long!

The Long Drop Goodbye

The Long Drop Goodbye is the next book in the Bumble Books series and it is being tarted up for publication now.

If the Bumble gets his finger out, it could be ready by the autumn - that's the Fall to you Americans. Funnily enough, The Long Drop Goodbye features a fall  - of a fat bloke onto the head of a Yank. Neither came out well from the encounter but you'll have to wait for the expert.. exert... excerpt that's coming soon to find out more.


PS: Apologies to Raymond Chandler for mutilating his title.