Sam Dean Thriller - An Image to Die For (Sam Dean Thriller, Book 4)

Mike Phillips is a writer and academic. He is the author of an award-winning crime fiction series and winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger. He served as a Trustee for the National Lottery Memorial Fund and was a member of the independent ‘Windrush: Lessons Learned Review’ commissioned by the Home Secretary and which reported in 2020.

Praise for Mike Phillips‘This is Mike Phillips’s best novel, brutal and caring, totally authentic’The Times -

‘Phillips delivers his seamy tale with an enviably warm spareness of effect’Sunday Times -

‘An incisive study of immigrant experience wrapped up in a gripping thriller’Times Literary Supplement -

‘The Best British thriller in years… A novel that seems to have been written for a purpose; it deals with the black British community as something other than a problem or a political cliché’Marie Claire -

‘Could have come from the pen of the master, Raymond Chandler’Today -

A thriller which maintains pace and provides excitements rooted in reality … a winner’Guardian -

‘There’s much here to suggest that Phillips could be one of our bravest, most incisive social commentators’Mail on Sunday -

”Phillips” - depictions of urban London share more with Harlem and Los Angeles than the English drawing rooms of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell’Financial Times

‘Phillips… gives a mean streetwise documentary edge to his hero’s hunt for a witness’Sunday Express -

‘Mr Phillips writes in a precise uncluttered style that suits the detective novel’s ritualistic form. But it is the sensibility of his hero - a black man - that lends freshness to the form itself’The New York Times Book Review -

‘As a political thriller it has something to say about multi-cultural Britain that is both revealing and intelligent … a good novel, deftly handled and deserving of praise’Time Out -