Michel Faber? I read his collection of short-stories The Fahrenheit Twins. Is the prostitute one fiction or non-fiction?
(The short-story collection was rather good, if I recall correctly)
Other crime-writers - Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty) if US pulp-fiction is your thing (or James Ellroy if pulp-pulp-pulp-fiction is your thing), or our own Ken Bruen (novels set in Galway from a Galway resident). John Banville also writes crime under the name Benjamin Black. Or you could go back to the beginning and check out Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes). P.D. James is also good.
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