Ray Banks

Ray Banks

Ray Banks' first novel, The Big Blind, was published in America in 2004, but his first UK success came with Saturday's Child, published by Polygon in 2006. Saturday's Child introduces the character of PI Callum Innes, who returns in the short story Donkey Work and Banks' latest novel, Donkey Punch.

Ray Banks currently works in retail, but has been a wedding singer, a salesman, and a croupier (work which influenced The Big Blind). His short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, as well as articles for crime writing websites such as Allan Guthrie's Noir Originals.

Ray currently lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with his wife Anastasia, and is currently working on two more PI Cal Innes novels, No More Heroes and Beast of Burden.

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    Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord 'Uncle' Morris Tiernan. Tiernan sends him to LA to chaperone an amateur boxer and Cal finds himself embroiled in fight rigging.
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    It's Manchester's hottest summer on record and while Callum Innes evicts families on behalf of local slumlord Donald Plummer, the English National Socialists stir up racial tensions to breaking point.
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    Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord 'Uncle' Morris Tiernan. When Tiernan tells him to track down a rogue casino dealer who's absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan's psychotic son.

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