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Nick Fletcher is an award-winning writer whose private-eye creation Max Slater is set to become a cult character in British detective fiction.  Reviewers have compared Nick Fletcher’s terse, ascerbic style to that of legendary American author Raymond Chandler, whose own detective Philip Marlowe prowled the mean and tawdry streets of Los Angeles in iconic novels such as The Big Sleep.  But while Marlowe plied his downbeat trade in the 1930s and 1940s, Max Slater is a private-eye for the 21st century, with a liking for rock music and vodka and a disturbing weakness for willing young blondes.  Slater - ‘a new and irresistible anti-hero’ according to one critic - is an ex-journalist with minimal deductive skills but a great talent for perseverence and, as he rather neatly puts it, "making your own luck."
 

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Max Slater made his debut in Nick Fletcher’s much-praised short-story collection Escaping The Rain (South Star, £5.99) which was published in 2000.

Now, Slater features in The Long Sunset (South Star, £6.99) a full-length novel in which he investigates an inexplicable contract killing in a quiet English village, starting a trail which leads headlong into a bizarre and deadly adventure on the beautiful holiday island of Lanzarote.  A second Max Slater novel, Imperfect day, will be published by Classic Books in Spring 2005.

Nick Fletcher’s writing is a compelling mix of wry observation, spiky humour and near-poetic imagery. His slick effortless style brilliantly evokes the dark edge of man-against-the-odds detective fiction, yet leavens it with sharp, satiric and self-deprecating wit.

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Nick Fletcher's new crime novel Imperfect Day is now available, published by Classic Books at £6.99 (ISBN 0-9538635-1-4).

Set mainly around the south-coast resort of Brighton, this riveting thriller sees journalist-turned-private-eye Max Slater taking on a psychotic millionaire who murders by proxy, and an extraordinary blonde who has trouble remembering whether or not she is wearing any clothes.

This book is brilliantly laced with allegorical comments on modern life and piercing observation of human foibles and is flecked throughout with a sharp, cynical wit.

Nick Fletcher has been described by Glitz Magazine as 'a new master of the cool private eye thriller'.

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