“An unholy mixture of Jim Thompson and American Psycho” -Time Out “Proudly Pornographic…the most comprehensive rendering of S&M variations ever to make it into mainstream fiction.” -The Literary Review Following the death of a minor league writer, a mysterious woman whose own past is full of contradictions is called in to investigate his life and to discover the lost manuscript of his memoirs, as they may incriminate VIPs. Her journey of discovery becomes a dazzling and a confusing exploration of the nature of autobiography and the awful grey zones between truth and the art of fiction. As she encounters all the women who knew him, she realizes every one has a different story to tell and the only thing they have in common is that the writer loved them all. So who was he really? A man who was addicted to women? A romantic? A compulsive Don Juan? A serial adulterer? A pornographer? A lost soul? A liar? Does the book he is believed to have written even exist? With every new revelation comes more questions. Confessions continues the fast-paced excitement of the hard-bitten detective Martin Jackson and Cornelia, his beautiful stripper and hit-woman client introduced in our book Skin In Darkness published in 2006. Maxim Jakubowski is a former publisher and owner of the world-famous Murder One bookshop in London’s Charing Cross Road. As well as being a writer and editor of various past cult publishing imprints, he is acknowledged as a disturbing and controversial voice in contemporary fiction. His collections have sold massively. He is a regular on television and radio where he is an expert on crime, erotica, and film. As a columnist for the Guardian he also writes on the arts for The Times. Maxim is literary director of the prestigious Crime Scene festival held at London’s National Film Theatre. He is the author of many titles including Skin In Darkness, but also the editor for Past Poisons (An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime) and Murder Through the Ages.