Bücher von Ian R Bell

The year is 1977, and as England goes to the dogs, university student, Julie Kent, reinvents herself as Sterling - an outrageous thieving Goth with a dodgy sex life and an appalling attitude. Over the next two decades she cuts a bloody swathe through London's criminal underworld until she finally ends up on a mortuary slab...but is she really dead?The social disintegration of the late Twentieth century is mirrored in Sterling's mind - and body - as she sets off on her final mission to avenge her best friend and lover who was brutally murdered by a ruthless gang of underworld assassins. George Brenton, a mortuary assistant, is drawn into her toxic web. Can she save him - and herself?Ian Bell's take on the Gothic Novel has plenty of ingredients to turn our minds (and stomachs), but as an acute observer of society at all levels he enthrals the reader with an eye for detail, brilliant characterisation - and a sense of the unseen evil lurking in London's dark and dangerous underworld. Miss it at your peril!

No wonder American anthropologist, Samantha Russell is nervous on her PhD research visit to London! She's flat-sharing with a glamorous lesbian vampire called Sterling, who's deeply involved in the London gangland culture of the anarchic 1980s.When both women find themselves in possession of a mysterious ancient artifact, they soon become the objects of unwanted attention - notably from the London police authorities and a secret society deep within the heart of the British Establishment, and from this point onward, things start to turn decidedly dangerous and deadly.Can the girls return the ancient artifact - a neck torc - back to where it truly belongs in the mythical underworld realm of the Dead via a cavern on the outskirts of Naples. Or will their arch nemesis Jimmy Silver and the local Camorra hitmen get them and the magical torc first? Remember, only silver bullets can despatch Sterling for good...Ian Bell's The Beauty and the Blood spins a powerful web of terror, politics and the supernatural, while moments of real beauty make the story glow, and the sadness of a society at bay lends poignancy to a tale that at once repels and fascinates. Watch out for the appearance of the Hell Hound - and above all watch your neck!