Benedict Jones’ novella Skewered takes us onto the mean streets of South East London. An Asian business tycoon has been kidnapped and Charlie ‘Bars’ Constaniou, just out from a third stretch in prison and stuck working in his uncle’s kebab shop, is more than ready to hand over the ransom money for a cut of the action. But simple plans never pan out and soon Charlie is up to his neck in a crooked family feud that involves a stellar cast of misfits including a psychotic torturer and a classic femme fatale.

David Goodis meets Get Carter by the Thames in this Noir feast. Five down & dirty short stories accompany Skewered into the British capital’s criminal underbelly.

It was great talking to Benedict about his work, the authors and places that have influenced it, as well as the merits of paper books compared with e-readers, and the sway of social media in modern publishing. He really sounds (to me) like Charlie Bars!

Skewered is out now through Crime Wave Press (www.crimewavepress.com), and you can find out more about Benedict as his site:

http://www.benedictjjones.webs.com/