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'Timlin has lost none of his skills for portraying the mood and dialogue of the city's underbelly' --Marcel Berlins, The Times
'The king of the British hard-boiled thriller' --The Times
'Nick Sharman is like black coffee at 4 o'clock in the morning: very black, very bitter' --Derek Raymond
'A pure pulp vision closer to Spillane than Chandler. The Sharman books are bloody romances of the South London badlands'
--John Williams
'The king of the British hard-boiled thriller' --The Times
'Nick Sharman is like black coffee at 4 o'clock in the morning: very black, very bitter' --Derek Raymond
'A pure pulp vision closer to Spillane than Chandler. The Sharman books are bloody romances of the South London badlands'
--John Williams
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For seven years, ex-cop Nick Shaman has been living in exile on a Caribbean island - his life of luxury funded by the proceeds of a bank robbery. Then a phone call from London changes everthing. The voice from the past belongs to the only woman he loves - his daughter, Judith. Like her father, she is a police officer, but the family resemblance doesn't stop there. Judith is in big trouble with the law - and she needs her father to help her.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Like many Sharman fans I had been waiting years for the next installment but it seemed like Mr Timlin just couldn't wait to get rid of him with this one. Very disappointed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The first Sharman book in a long while, and unfortunately a pale imitation. It is almost as if this trite offering is not written by the same author. Why did he let this one out? I presume money is the answer.
Don't bother reading this.
A car that has run out of petrol.
Don't bother reading this.
A car that has run out of petrol.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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"Stay Another Day" is Mark Timlin's first Nick Sharman novel in seven years. Sharman, for his part, has spent the intervening time in exile on a Caribbean island doing essentially nothing. Unsurprisingly, he has lost his edge. So too has Timlin. This book is a pale shadow of the best in its series.
"Stay Another Day" is thinnly plotted. The story revolves around Sharman's return to London to aid his daughter, now a Detective Inspector, who has been framed for the murder of one of her confidential informants. The plot is lazy and full of implausibilities. The writing too has lost its edge, with none of the taut menace that used to characterize Timlin's sarf London noir.
Devotees of the earlier Sharman books may want to visit this one too. But there is much to be said for remembering old friends in their prime and not when they have so demonstrably gone downhill. Loyalty to the author need not be a factor, since in the close of the book Timlin delivers a final slap in the face to Sharman fans that will be hard to forgive.
"Stay Another Day" is thinnly plotted. The story revolves around Sharman's return to London to aid his daughter, now a Detective Inspector, who has been framed for the murder of one of her confidential informants. The plot is lazy and full of implausibilities. The writing too has lost its edge, with none of the taut menace that used to characterize Timlin's sarf London noir.
Devotees of the earlier Sharman books may want to visit this one too. But there is much to be said for remembering old friends in their prime and not when they have so demonstrably gone downhill. Loyalty to the author need not be a factor, since in the close of the book Timlin delivers a final slap in the face to Sharman fans that will be hard to forgive.
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