I include a quote from Craig Sisterson, a Kiwi journalist and the author of Crime Watch, saying this of author Thomas:“Paul Thomas could well be considered the Godfather of contemporary Kiwi crime writing. It was he who, in the 1990s, dragged the genre here from its Marsh and Christie-esque cozy confines into a more hard-boiled, violent world filled with crisp and satiric prose. Overseas critics have described him as ‘Elmore Leonard on acid,’ and the comparison seems apt. Thomas has an offbeat vitality to his writing that is hard to resist.”
You’ll find my full Kirkus review of Death on Demand here.
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Death On Demand (and Paul Thomas)deserve to be far better known than they are. Seemingly ignored by the mystery-writing establishment in the UK,Death on Demand is a front-runner for the SHOTS magazine Crime Shot of the Year title to be announced next month.
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