Cutting edge suspense under extreme tension. Quick &amp; dirty flash fiction and sharp &amp; deadly crime fiction at your fingertips; featuring a motley crew of 13 usual suspects, and new blood. This is it: the first cut of Switchblade. No-limit crime culture springs to life at the hands of Paul D. Brazill, Preston Lang, Liam Sweeny, Steve Liskow, Jim Wilsky, Larry Kelter, William Dylan Powell, Susan Cornford, Travis Richardson, Jack Bates, Tom Leins, Fred Zackel, and Scotch Rutherford.

Switchblade (Issue One)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Liskow, Steve

Kelter, Lawrence

Powell, William Dylan

Wilsky, Jim

Sweeny, Liam

Lang, Preston

Bates, Jack

Richardson, Travis

Cornford, Susan

Brazill, Paul D.

Mystery

Caledonia Press

Queen of Diamonds (The Ania Series)

Zafiro, Frank

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In this hard boiled crime novel, Frank Zafiro and Jim Wilsky team up for the third installment in the saga of Ania, the siren grifter who starred in Blood on Blood and Queen of Diamonds. John Pearse is a loss recovery agent for an insurance agency. When a set of crown jewels that his company paid out on resurface in the middle of a Russian/Polish mafia war in Chicago, Pearse is sent in to find and recover the diamonds. Standing in his ways are gangsters, grifters, and cops, but the biggest obstacle will be the sexy Ania, who has managed to stay one step of everyone else…until now. Andros Krol is muscle for the Polish mafia in Chicago, tasked by his boss to bring back more than just the diamonds. Strong and cunning, Krol is after the money Ania took, but his biggest priority is to deliver brutal justice and a final day of reckoning for Ania. Pearse and Krol are locked into a race against time and each other as they pursue the wily Ania.  The circle is closing on all of them.

Closing the Circle (The Ania Series)

Predators thrive on entropy. They're often the ones closest to us. They know where we're most vulnerable-where it hurts the most. They come in all types. They cruise the street anonymously, looking for victims; or they return to us like a lethal rash from an unresolved past. They might be ideological extremists. Or profit-driven sharply dressed parasites. They might even be megalomaniacs. But they all thrive on weakness-especially dysfunctional relationships. And they know when to strike, when you think the world's got your back-and then you realize it does: when it whispers softly that what you're about to receive is nothing more than a routine prostate exam.

Switchblade: Issue Eleven (Switchblade Volume One)

Garnet, George

Burnett, Misha

Rachels, David

Cizak, Alec

Graves, J.D.

White, Robb T.

JAYNE, SERENA

Beatty, Brian

Timm, John

Literature & Fiction

When Ania Kozak hits Vegas, she’s only looking for a place to relax and lay low with her stolen cash and diamonds. But Sin City has other plans for “Annie.” Cord Needham is a poker circuit champion with an eye for the ladies and a dark secret in his past. Casey Brunnell is a former baseball player fighting the cards and running up debts to a local mobster. When Annie decides to play a dangerous game with both of them, the stakes go through the roof. Everyone scrambles to beat the odds and get out of town with the money…and their lives. Praise for QUEEN OF DIAMONDS: “Queen of Diamonds is the second collaboration between Frank Zafiro and Jim Wilsky and it’s a partnership that runs like a well-oiled machine…I’ve read a lot of books set in Las Vegas, but there are very few I have enjoyed more.” —Chris Leek, independent reviewer “They are able to capture that odd mixture of psychology, math skills and pure luck that can help people excel at Texas Hold ’Em in a way that anyone could understand. They show a strong understanding of the game and why some people treat gambling for money like a career…[the authors] are able to keep readers guessing right up until the last few chapters when their plot threads finally all come together. They manage to both frustrate some expectations readers may have and bring everything to a satisfying conclusion.” —Brian Triplett, independent reviewer

Queen of Diamonds (Ania Series)

Down & Out Books

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

Bracken, Michael

Ollerman, Rick

Taylor, Art

Lancet, Barry

Abbott, Patricia

Whitfield, Raoul

Sellers, Peter

Solomon, S.A.

Short Stories & Anthologies

John Pearse is a loss recovery agent for an insurance agency. When a set of crown jewels that his company paid out on resurface in the middle of a Russian/Polish mafia war in Chicago, Pearse is sent in to find and recover the diamonds. Standing in his ways are gangsters, grifters, and cops, but the biggest obstacle will be the sexy Ania, who has managed to stay one step of everyone else…until now. Andros Krol is muscle for the Polish mafia in Chicago, tasked by his boss to bring back more than just the diamonds. Strong and cunning, Krol is after the money Ania took, but his biggest priority is to deliver brutal justice and a final day of reckoning for Ania. Pearse and Krol are locked into a race against time and each other as they pursue the wily Ania. The circle is closing on all of them.

Closing the Circle (Ania Series)

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