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Empty Bowl
12.04.08
It looks suspiciously like York electro rock act Dust Bowl Central have evaporated, since their web page is vanished and gone.
I’ve pimped them on here before - their first EP was a free download and the second in crisp CD form only cost me about three quid through their site - and I’d always hoped there’d be more. One of the few unsigned bands I’ve encountered through the random ether of the internet who had actually made me think, “Hey, these guys are really good.”
Forty on the kerb, etc. Also have to backup that first EP of MP3s to hardcopy since there’ll be no other way of saving the thing if my originals die.
Books
A dozen people trapped in a roadhouse during a storm, three corpses buried in a field, and a good chance no one's going to make it through the night alive. Burial Ground is the last Alex Rourke novel.
One mistake. Seven years of a child's life. In The Darkness Inside, Alex finds out the missing kid in a case he worked on in his FBI days may not have been killed after all. And that the man he crossed the line to put away may not have worked alone.
A single bullet blows Alex's world to pieces. He finds himself in the strange Vermont town of Bleakwater Ridge trying to piece together what's happened, alone except for the dead and The Touch Of Ghosts.
A silent murder suspect, caught red-handed at the scene, draws former FBI agent Alex Rourke back to his home town of Winter's End in northern Maine. But it soon becomes clear that there's far more to the place, and to his own past, than he ever realised.
Short Fiction
Wish, featuring gay Nazis and the terror of living urban myth, appears in the Ken Bruen-edited Dublin Noir, as well as in 2008's Best British Mysteries anthology.
Twenty Dollar Future, about the tragic making of a child soldier in east Africa, appears in Jen Jordan's Expletive Deleted anthology.