Derek Raymond wrote bleak British crime fiction best known for the Factory series, which follows an unnamed detective from the Department of Unexplained Deaths through neglected murders in London. He Died with His Eyes Open begins with the death of an alcoholic writer and uses the victim's recorded voice to draw the detective into a life already collapsing before the murder. The Devil's Home on Leave and How the Dead Live continue the series through damaged neighbourhoods and institutional indifference, while I Was Dora Suarez pushes its violence and psychological extremity much further. Raymond's prose is hard, introspective and uncompromising, with crime plots used to examine class, despair and the lives society has stopped noticing. His work fits British noir, hardboiled crime and literary detective fiction. Read more Less
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