A beautiful young woman is brutally murdered - just as governments around the world announce that the universe will end in five days' time.
       The planet Earth's 6.5 billion human beings deal with their impending extinction in 6.5 billion ways. But amid global chaos, dedicated detective Herbie Watkins stays on the case, determined to discover the killer against a merciless clock that's ticking away his own final hours.
       Is he insanely obsessed, or is he the last sane man in the history of the human race?
       Sam Smith weaves a unique cop story of a unique cop against a unique backdrop in a unique page-turner of a book.
       No count-down novel, no disaster book, no police saga has ever been written to thrill the reader and plumb the depths of the human soul as does The End of Science Fiction. It is the last word in SF and crime … and much more.

You will read The End of Science Fiction over and over again, asking new and challenging questions of yourself and formulating new answers every time you re-open this outstanding work from the pen of an author who demands one-sitting novel reading.

The Sick Ape of the title dwells in the mind. Although that's not the first consideration of this tale.
     First there's the accident of meeting of two divorced and embittered fathers, then comes a cooking and eating of meals, followed by a marriage of disgruntled minds.
     The consequence of which leads to the pair of them getting labelled terrorists - all within a book dedicated to non-terrorists - with them finally, and during, seeking to resolve their campaign in different ways. One being death. One being this book.

In MARKS you will find a divorce detective, chalk lines, suspicions of murder & an inherited racial grudge.

'...His prose is clear, smooth and spare. His dialogue reveals the characters' personalities. Even minor characters feel filled out and whole.' Miles Archer, Inscriptions Magazine

In PORLOCK COUNTERPOINT a thief, smugglers and police play pass-the-parcel with a cocaine stash.

"Never have I read a crime story with more levels than this - above and below ground. You rush through the pages to reach the conclusion... but the conclusion is your own. Magnificent. What a storyteller, what an interrogator is Sam Smith..." - crime novelist Alistair Kinnon

This remarkable book is the result of countless recorded interviews with Vera and Eddy, his in-laws, and paints an unforgettably human and strikingly real picture of how two small people emerged, scorched but complete, from the flames of the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind.
       Vera and Eddy lead us through the pain and the outlandish, sometimes ghoulish humour, the desperate hopes and stark terrors of times when doorsteps and cinemas, invasion beaches and battlefields were all equally in the front line.
       Days when uncertainty was a constant companion and mutilation and death were never more than a moment away.
       So expertly does Smith apply his no-frills narrative style, that the reader can hear the shattering explosions as pregnant Vera dodges the bombs blitzing her streets, and feel the hot breath of shrapnel whipping past Eddy's ears in the killing zones of Normandy and Holland.

Smith's book reads as one of the most gripping, frantically paced war novels ever written.
What elevates it from the merely great to the truly magnificent is that every single word is true.

A group of teenaged girls in a penny-pinching privately owned care institution struggle to come to terms with their pasts – and their futures.
       Meanwhile, care workers at Bridge House struggle to come to terms with the girls themselves and the horrors of their earlier lives.
       In the face of ineptitude, indifference and greed, dedicated – but weary – care worker, Barry Gresham, faces the effects of child prostitution, drug addiction, self-mutilation, domestic incest, violence, and crime against heavy establishment odds … and also against the cynical opposition of his life-hardened young charges.
       Sam Smith's gripping and disturbingly real novel explodes comfortable myths and exposes a care vortex into which youngsters often vanish without trace.
       Drawing on several years of observation and research, Smith writes with undeniable authority. His characters become starkly real as he works through their coldly official case histories and follows the girls and Barry through the volatile days and nights of a single working shift.
       The Care Vortex is an irresistible, no-holds-barred, page-turner of a novel in its own right. But it is also a vital reality check – a wake-up call that will rouse every reader.

All Smith's royalties from the sale of this book are to be donated to the charity, Child Aid Direct.