Welcome to London - where the ferryman always has to be paid and the price is two shiny pennies over your cold dead eyes.

When the son of the city’s leading barrister asks ex-con turned private eye Charlie “Bars” Constantinou to look for a missing call-girl, Charlie thinks he might finally have found a way to do some good. But Charlie soon finds himself embroiled with a serial killer who believes that the soul of the city demands human sacrifices if it is to reward its inhabitants with spoils and riches. There’s not been a murderer so calculating, bizarre and elusive on the loose in the British capital since Jack the Ripper.

Three time loser Charlie Bars, unlikely hero of Skewered and other London Cruelties, Ben Jones’s first Crime Wave Press release, is the only man to put the city right and make sure the ferryman gets his due.

Benedict J. Jones is an author of crime, horror and western fiction from South-East London. His work has been published in various anthologies and magazines. Since 2008, he has published almost thirty short stories.

To me, Benedict sounds like Charlie Bars. I'm sorry, I've said it before, I'll say it again - it's that Vinnie Jones, West End, gravel in the throat rasp that they both share! It's always great to talk to Ben, and find out how his work is put together - be it by going places and looking at them, or researching Greek myths. Pennies For Charon is a great book, and I think this is easily one of my all time favourite interviews!

Check out his website for more information:

http://www.benedictjjones.webs.com

You can find out more about Benedict and Pennies For Charon at:

http://www.crimewavepress.com