25 stories of crime fiction from authors from around the world, both new and established, conjuring up some of the darkest stories involving murder, corruption, and despair. Featuring 25 stories by: “A Boy Like Billy” by Patricia Abbott “Border Crossing” by Michael McGlade “Looking for the Death Trick” by Bracken MacLeod “Maybelle’s Last Stand” by Travis Richardson “Predators” by Marie S. Crosswell “Twenty to Life” by Frank Byrns “So Much Love” by Keith Rawson “Running Late” by Tess Makovesky “Last Supper” by Katanie Duarte “Danny” by Michael Bracken “The Plot” by Jedidiah Ayres “What Alva Wants” by Timothy Friend “Time Enough to Kill” by Kent Gowran “Copas” by Hector Acosta “Yellow Car Punch” by Nigel Bird “Love at First Fight” by Angel Luis Colón “Traps” by Owen Laukkanen “Down the Rickety Stairs” by Alan Orloff “Blackmailer’s Pep Talk” by Chris Rhatigan “With a Little bit of Luck” by Bill Baber “As Cute as a Speckled Pup Under a Red Wagon” by Tony Conaway “Chipping off the Old Block” by Nick Kolakowski “Young Turks and Old Wives” by Shane Simmons “The Hangover Cure” by Seth Lynch “Highway Six” by John L. Thompson

Shotgun Honey Presents: Locked and Loaded (Both Barrels)

Literature & Fiction

Laukkanen, Owen

Byrns, Frank

Bracken, Michael

KOLAKOWSKI, NICK

MacLeod, Bracken

Rhatigan, Chris

Richardson, Travis

Abbott, Patricia

Acosta, Hector

Rawson, Keith

Ayres, Jedidiah

Gowran, Kent

Crosswell, Marie S.

Colón, Angel Luis

Makovesky, Tess

Duarte, Katanie

Lynch, Seth

Bird, Nigel

Short Stories & Anthologies

One Eye Press

The first time Ginny sees Jack, she knows he is the man she wants. Jack believe he'll be back from serving his country in a year. Hitler, Hirohito, Churchill, and Roosevelt all conspire against him and it is four long years later before Jack sees Ginny again.

Goodbye Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year (Five Star First Edition Women's Fiction Series)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Five Star

We are born fearing the dark, or at least, what lives in the dark, the things with teeth and fangs and blood on their breath. And now, darkness is falling--in the city; in the country; around the globe; in the universe. It's the end of the Mayan Long Count. It's the zombie apocalypse. It's an extinction event. It's … well, does it really matter what it is? It's … over. And what will be left when all is lost? Will there be love? A feeling of déjà vu? A sense of relief? An overriding instinct for survival in the face of an indifferent Fate? What lessons have we learned? What legacy will we leave behind when night falls forever? Is anyone listening? Is anyone watching? Will there be anyone, or anything, left to bear witness when the last light fails? Dark Valentine Press presents Nightfalls: Notes from the end of the world, a charity anthology in which twenty-nine writers from three different countries present their unique visions of the end of the world in half a dozen genres. These short stories run the gamut from hilarious to heart-breaking, with stops at all the emotions in between.

Nightfalls: Notes from the end of the world

Goffman, Barb

Leverone, Allan

George, Kaye

Tomlinson, Katherine

Callaway, Jimmy

Bury, Col

Keir, Alex

May, Peter Mark

Dabnor, christian

Dark Valentine Press

Step back in time with MAHLLC. Find out why Caruso's tailor could never claim the famous tenor as a client. Walk with Caravaggio under the dome of Santa Maria del Popolo. Learn why filming of Flash Gordon was halted in 1942. Turn a page and lose yourself in Victorian London or tangle with WWII spies. Featuring stories by Edith Maxwell, Jason Andrew, and Harriette Sackler.

History and Mystery, Oh My!

Maxwell, Edith

Andrew, Jason

Tyrer, D.J.

Sackler, Harriette

Wartenberg, Paul

Dubiel, Cari

Genre Fiction

Mystery & Horror, LLC

The first time Ginny sees Jack, she knows he is the man she wants. Jack believe he'll be back from serving his country in a year. Hitler, Hirohito, Churchill, and Roosevelt all conspire against him and it is four long years later before Jack sees Ginny again.

Goodbye Dear, I'll Be Back in a Year

Contemporary

Home Invasion, a novel in stories, looks at two generations of the Batch family over forty years, and the ways in which alcohol, petty crime, poor parenting, and bad choices have had a negative impact on them. Each story in the book advances their journey by a number of years. The stories can stand alone but read together tell a tale that is both unique and familiar. Home Invasion examines poverty, poor education, crime, sexual identity, parenting and other contemporary issues.

Home Invasion

Down & Out Books

Nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Award Evil doesn’t always live next door. Sometimes it lives right in your own home. Eve Moran has always wanted things,” her powers of seduction impossible to resist for those who come in contact with her toxic allure. And over the course of her life, she has proven both inventive and tenacious in getting and keeping whatever such things catch her eye, whether they are jewelry, money, or men. Eve lies, steals, cheats, swindles, and is even willing to take a life, paying little heed to the cost of her actions on those who love her and depend on her. Her daughter, Christine, compelled by love, dependency, and circumstance, is caught up in her mother’s deceptions, unwilling to accept the viciousness that runs in her family’s blood. It’s only when Christine’s three-year old brother, Ryan, begins to prove useful to her mother, and Christine sees a horrific pattern repeating itself, that she finds the courage and means to bring an end to Eve’s tyranny. Concrete Angel centers around a family torn apart by a mother straight out of Mommie Dearest”, and her resilient young daughter who discovers that survival can mean fighting the closest evil imaginable.

Concrete Angel

United States

Polis Books

Nominated for the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award Violet Hart is a photographer who has always returned to cobble out a life for herself in the oddly womblike interiors of Detroit. Nearing forty, she’s keenly aware that the time for artistic recognition is running out. When her lover, Bill, a Detroit mortician, needs a photograph of a body, she agrees to takes the picture. It’s an artistic success and Violet is energized by the subject matter, persuading Bill to allow her to take pictures of some of his other clients,” eventually settling on photographing young, black men. When Violet’s new portfolio is launched, she quickly strikes a deal, agreeing to produce a dozen pictures with a short deadline, confident because dead bodies are commonplace in Detroit and she has access to the city’s most prominent mortician. These demands soon place Violet in the position of having to strain to meet her quota. As time runs out, how will Violet come up with enough subjects to photograph without losing her soul or her life in the process? A riveting novel of psychological suspense, Patricia Abbott continues to cement herself as one of our very best writers of the darkness that lies within the human heart.

Shot In Detroit

A collection of extraordinary riveting and thought provoking stories from Edgar and Anthony award nominee Patricia Abbott that explore the dark side of human behavior. A daughter finds a way to save a mother who no longer knows her name. A father eases his grief through an act of kindness that few will judge kindly. A savvy realtor closes her deal in an unexpected way. Asociety of women fares little better than their forbearers. An uxorious husband finds the limits of his love. These and more stories will bring you into the deepest, darkest corridors of the heart, leaving you breathless with suspense and in awe of the incredible storytelling ability of Patricia Abbott.

I Bring Sorrow: And Other Stories of Transgression

This third issue of Down &amp; Out: The Magazine features a new Jim Brodie story by Barry Lancet, whose novel Japantown has been optioned by J.J. Abrams and Warner Brothers for the Hollywood treatment. Here we have Brodie on a trip to his home in Japan and a quest to find out what’s going on with the yakuza and a perplexing kidnapping. But first up is a story by Canadian favorite Peter Sellers; he delivers a nasty little crime story of love and loyalty in the workplace in his own unique style. Patti Abbott gives us a searing story proving once again how nothing torches the human soul like that of another person’s expectations. Art Taylor, one of the best and most prolific short story artists working today, makes his first appearance here with a relatively short tale reminiscent of the late great Richard Matheson. Speaking of legends, Robert J. Randisi shares a story from his “Rat Pack” series. Next a writer who makes words look as though they fit together far more easily than they actually do is S.A. Solomon with her tale of corporate Big Business and other vices. Writing partners Frank Zafiro and Jim Wilsky debut separate stories from their Ania series, actual prequels to the novels, the first of which, Blood on Blood, will be released in April by Down &amp; Out Books. A fine noir tale by prolific author Michael Bracken helps round us out. As usual we have another fantastic column by J. Kingston Pierce on the novels of the late Stanley Ellin, and for our “A Few Cents a Word” feature we present a discussion and a story by one of the hard-boiled school’s originators, Raoul Whitfield.

Down & Out: The Magazine Volume 1 Issue 3

Ollerman, Rick

Taylor, Art

Zafiro, Frank

Wilsky, Jim

Lancet, Barry

Whitfield, Raoul

Sellers, Peter

Solomon, S.A.

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