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The discovery of a dead banker sends shockwaves through the sleepy coastal town of Ayr. And it's up to DI Bob Valentine, recently back on the force after his near-fatal stabbing, to find the killer...

Welcome to the Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles Chapter short story anthology, Avenging Angelenos. It has been my honor to serve as president of the chapter these past few years, and I am so proud of the...

When Jay Desmarteaux steps out of from prison after serving twenty-five years for murdering a vicious school bully, he tries to follow his convict mentor's advice: the best revenge is living well...

The body of teenager Antwan Driggers is found handcuffed to a fence in a swampy area south of Mobile, Alabama. His throat has been slit. The cuffs preventing Antwan's escape belong to veteran...

Bad Guy LawyerAuthor: Chuck KreislPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Mar 21, 2022Number of Pages: 228 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643962493ISBN-13: 9781643962498

Badge 112Author: Peter StipePublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Jun 21, 2021Number of Pages: 278 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643962094ISBN-13: 9781643962092

Bangkok Gamble (Matt Chance Thriller)Author: Tom CrowleyPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Nov 30, 2020Number of Pages: 228 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Bay of MartyrsAuthor: Tony Black, Matt NealPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Nov 08, 2021Number of Pages: 248 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643962353ISBN-13:...

It's 1980 on Florida's Gulf coast. Sun, drugs, gambling debts, and dirty deals push Navy-prison parolee, Scotland Ross, deeper into the life of crime he never wanted. His sister's life, a potential...

Backed with campaign funds from the owner of the local strip club, ex-state trooper and recovering alcoholic Henry Malone's running for sheriff. But because he can't say no to a bad idea, he also...

Behind the Wall of SleepAuthor: James D. F. HannahPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Nov 29, 2021Number of Pages: 242 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643961764ISBN-13:...

Below the LineAuthor: Steve JankowskiPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Nov 09, 2020Number of Pages: 246 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643961543ISBN-13: 9781643961545

Beneath the Black Palms lurks the other side of living. Los Angeles-the siren, the beast-is the central antagonist within these eleven masterful, stylistically-diverse short stories. Nolan Knight...

"Gordon Gekko meets Janet Evanovich in this wry and winning caper-Jack Getze does it again!" -Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark Award winning author of Truth Be Told Wall...

Three women are mad enough to kill him. Only one is a murderer. Left in charge of a third-rate Jersey Shore investment firm, suspended stockbroker Austin Carr becomes the prize in a war between two...

Who wants to kill Austin Carr? Everybody. He's a stockbroker. About to be ingeniously murdered -- snatched off a private fishing yacht by a live, six-hundred-pound giant bluefin -- a down-on-his-luck...

Jersey Shore broker Austin Carr wants out of the stock and bond business but un-hooking from his mobbed-up partner won't be painless. Angelina "Mama Bones" Bonacelli is best known for professional...

Some say he's a serial killer. Others say he's a vigilante doing what police can't or won't do. What's certain is that Dean Drayhart, a paraplegic, will soon sit on death row for killing...

BITTER WATER BLUES by Patrick Shawn Bagley. A country noir with a touch of dark humor about a blues-loving hitman, forced into one last job.Author: Patrick Shawn BagleyPublisher: Down & Out...

Blackchurch is not the sort of place where folks are inclined to be up in each other's business, and strange house guests at a neighbor's pad are not likely to be noticed, let alone remarked upon. So...

Eddie Ballard is a hitman who loves his job. He is also inexperienced and enjoys making the kind of noise that just isn?t professional. If Eddie wasn?t so good at what he does, He could be the next...

Published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, which was held in New Orleans in 2016. As with the convention itself, the anthology spreads a broad canopy across a wide...

Edited by Rick Ollerman. Alphabetical list of contributors: Scott Adlerberg, Eric Beetner, Kristi Belcamino, Michael A. Black, Michael Bracken, Don Bruns, Gary R. Bush, Austin Camacho, Dave Case,...

Can Dick Moonlight save himself from crashing and burning? PI Dick Moonlight wakes up to find himself on a plummeting plane and handcuffed to an FBI agent. As if his life wasn't already turbulent...

Former Pittsburgh narcotics detective Trevor Galloway has been hired to look into the year-old homicide of a prominent businessman who was gunned down on his estate in Central Pennsylvania. When...

Brand New DarkAuthor: Beau JohnsonPublisher: Down & Out BooksPublication Date: Jul 12, 2021Number of Pages: 170 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1643962213ISBN-13: 9781643962214

Actor Paul Wilkinson is in a world of hurt. The cops are sure he murdered his new girlfriend's abusive ex, and a vicious drug dealer is after him for a batch of stolen narcotics. Paul sees a chance...

Cincinnati, just before rock changed from spandex to flannel... Kenny Rockford has the best gig in town, drumming for local heroes The Selekt. The pay's OK, but the benefits are amazing. One benefit...

Amid the political storm surrounding California's anti-illegal alien Proposition 187, PI Duke Rogers and his very unPC sidekick Jack take on the case of Carlos, a murdered undocumented day worker...

BROOKLYN JUSTICE is a wild ride through the streets of the Borough of Churches. Private investigator Nick Ventura knows trouble-but not how to keep his nose out of it. A pool of blood spreading...