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Dark, gritty, disturbing. Those are the types of characters you'll encounter in the award winning stories within this collection. Tough people in a tough world. But also real people, struggling with...

Shrapnel Wounds is the combat memoir of Lieutenant Tom Crowley, an enthusiastic and highly trained U.S. Army enlistee and Officer Candidate School grad who enters combat in Vietnam in mid-1966...

Sierra BravoAuthor: Les RobertsPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Feb 10, 2025Number of Pages: 300 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1643963880ISBN-13: 9781643963884

A nail-biting thriller with a Hitchcock-style McGuffin...SILENT REMAINS, a crime thriller by Jerry Kennealy.Author: Jerry KennealyPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Mar 18, 2019Number of...

From a host of bestselling and award-winning authors come the stories from the darkest corners of their imaginations featuring one of the most abhorrent acts of mankind; cannibalism! Throughout...

A strangled prostitute, laid out on a prize-winning fairway. A stabbed pensioner, found wasting away in a rubbish-strewn house. And a brutally murdered banker, his expensive car sabotaged en route to...

Three criminals on the run, not just from the law but from other criminals. Two of them are lovers, the third her former lover. Where does love lie, except in the grave? Deria is the psychotic woman...

This classic story of bad decisions leading to worse consequences takes place in a small Illinois Rust Belt city circa 1979. Al Heidorn is a working stiff, a Korean War vet and recently divorced...

Some Awful CunningAuthor: Joe RickerPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Apr 20, 2020Number of Pages: 308 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643960865ISBN-13: 9781643960869

Malefactors is defined as "those who commit an offense against the law," or more simply put, "one who does ill toward another." This collection of short stories from Jim Wilsky is chock full of them...

When ex-sheriff Ken Burke is attacked and winds up in an unusual coma, the former hitman Sangster finds himself pulled into the world of Voodoo in order to save his friend. Sangster discovers he has...

Jon Catlett and Paul Frank have turned their once-failing used bookstore into one of the most thriving businesses in the Highlands. But they paid in blood for their success, for Twice Told Books is...

Every man dreams of re-living his glory days. Dan Parrish, ex-con, gets that opportunity...but pays a steep price...SPLINTER CITY by Shawn Corridan and Gary Waid.Author: Shawn Corridan, Gary...

Seventy-five years following the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry, an elderly Nisei hires Ava Rome to find out how his best friend, a Japanese-American Buddhist priest, died in the Tule...

Jim Honeycutt, a fifty-something Hall of Famer who can still throw 90 MPH fast balls, is missing his three-hundredth career win baseball, and an anonymous note points to his four scheming daughters...

Author: M. Todd HendersonPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: January 31, 2021Number of Pages: 372 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643961519ISBN-13: 9781643961514

Stealing the Countess (McKenzie Novel)Author: David HousewrightPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Aug 31, 2020Number of Pages: 306 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

What could possibly go wrong when the backwoods Libidos Motorcycle Club hires a high school dropout to tend a barn full of high-grade marijuana? Plenty, it turns out. In a world where indoor...

Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers delivers a portrait of contemporary working class authors in America. Editor Daniel M. Mendoza engages with "some of the best in contemporary...

Featuring Work By: Dickey Betts, Sherman Alexie, Willy Vlautin, Vicki Hendricks, Chris Hedges, Chris Offutt, Jason Isbell, Daniel Woodrell, Patrick Michael Finn, Joseph D. Haske, Steven Huff, Eric...

Suicide Blonde: Three NovellasAuthor: Brian ThorntonPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Oct 19, 2020Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 164396044XISBN-13:...

Suicide Squeeze (Diamond Mystery)Author: Tg WolffPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: February 07, 2021Number of Pages: 250 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643961772ISBN-13:...

Dan is a con man and drifter who thinks he just hitched a ride back east. Instead, he finds himself going 70-miles-an-hour with a gun pointed at his head. But instead of a bullet, he's hit with a...

Just your average New Jersey childhood? Not exactly. SURVIVING JERSEY: Danger & Insanity in the Garden State by Scott Loring Sanders.Author: Scott Loring SandersPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication...

Millionaire lawyer Carlton Phillips has lost track of his daughter Marcy. Her last known whereabouts were at her school, Syracuse University. While trying to track down Marcy and/or her geeky...

SWANN'S DOWN, a Henry Swann Mystery by Charles Salzberg. 5th in series.Author: Charles SalzbergPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: May 20, 2019Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage:...

When rare photos' a scandalous diary' and a beautiful woman all go missing at once' the stage is set for three challenging cases for Henry Swann. It begins with an offer to partner up with his...

Skip tracer Henry Swann cares little about anything but money, so when a beautiful Upper East Side woman shows up in his office and hires him to find her missing husband, he smiles and takes the cash...

A friendly poker game leads Henry Swann out to Hollywood where he tries to find the man, Rusty Jacobs, responsible for embezzling $1,000,000 from his client, and then bring back the dough. Swann...

Tales from the Blue Line by Rob Riley is a compilation of twenty-nine separate police investigations conducted by Rob Riley and his partners, while they were Milwaukee Police officers. Riley was...