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Fadeaway Joe
Perfect for fans of S. A. Cosby and Allen Eskens, Joe Pendergast must go all in one last time as he grapples with the ghosts of his past–and present–in this gritty, high-stakes thriller. Sixty-four-year-old Joe has known violence his entire life. For forty years, he’s worked as an enforcer for loan shark and close friend Maxie Smith, breaking more than a few bones along the way. When Maxie abruptly fires him, Joe isn’t sure where to lay the blame—on Maxie, the man he once considered his brother, or on the early-onset Alzheimer’s that made Maxie lose faith in him in the first place. To keep his head above water, he begins to operate a food truck that’s barely getting by. Despera...
Refried Beans and a Snub-Nosed .44
Chicago sports columnist Stan Jedd always had latest scoop, the sharpest insight and the must-read analysis. For 35 years, he prowled the sidelines and dugouts of his beloved city for the scrappy Northside Courier, a twice-weekly tabloid that often beat the larger competition. But Jedd’s glory days are long gone. He’s lost his job thanks to Sideline Sal, a sports blogger who specializes in sensational and cruel clickbait that drives profits. Sal’s brand of gutter reportage is what sometimes passes for journalism these days. In this new world, an in-depth piece stops at 280 characters and credibility goes as far as Wikipedia factoids and anonymous sources take you. Readers take a back s...
Black Cat Weekly #80
Our 80th issue has some great tales for you, starting with an original mystery by Hugh Lessit (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and a great reprint by Jim Thomsen (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). Plus we have a pair of detective novels, the first featuring New York-based private investigator Nick Carter, and the second another original Hardy Boys mystery. If you read the later editions, you will be shocked to find how much was changed from the originals. These are not the watered-down Hardy Boys most of us read as kids. Give it a read. On the science fiction and fantasy side, we have a Frostflower & Thorn tale by Phyllis Ann Karr, as she brings her famous duo to a world ...
Groovy Gumshoes
The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, when long-established social norms were challenged and everything changed: from music to fashion to social mores. And the Leave It to Beaver households in Middle America didn’t know what to make of it all. In the midst of this, private eyes tried to understand and bridge the generational divide while providing their clients with legal and extra-legal detecting services. From old-school private eyes with their flat-tops, off-the-rack suits, and well-worn brogues to the new breed of private eyes with their shoulder-length hair, bell-bottoms, and hemp sandals, the shamuses in Groovy Gumshoes take readers on a rollicking romp through the Sixties. With stories by Jack Bates, C.W. Blackwell, Michael Bracken, N.M. Cedeño, Hugh Lessig, Steve Liskow, Adam Meyer, Tom Milani, Neil S. Plakcy, Stephen D. Rogers, Mark Thielman, Grant Tracey, Mark Troy, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Robb White.
THUGLIT
Light the fuse, Kittens...THUGLIT-ISSUE 6 is ready to blow up your face with eight killer tales from some of the best crime writers on the mutherlubbin' PLANET.Tick...Tick...Tick...BOOM, BABY!!!!!!PIN by Hugh Lessig WHEELS by Rena Robinett COME ON HOME by Scott Adlerberg HAVING CHIQUI by Kieran Shea SOUL COLLECTION by T Fox Dunham SWEET CAROLINE by Jessica Adams THE GHOST WIFE by Aaron Fox-Lerner ROGUES GALLERY by BH Shepherd
Guns + Tacos Vol. 6
There’s a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn’t the food selection that attracts customers, it’s the illegal weapons available with the special order. Each episode of Guns & Tacos features the story of one Chicagoland resident who visits the taco truck seeking a solution to life’s problems, a solution that always comes in a to-go bag. Episode 16: Refried Beans and a Snub-Nosed .44 by Hugh Lessig Episode 17: Two Steak Taco Combos and a Pair of Sig Sauers by Neil S. Plakcy Episode 18: A Smith & Wesson with a Side of Chorizo by Andrew Welsh-Huggins Episodes 13-15 are featured in Guns + Tacos Vol. 5.
Crime Factory
BUY IT IN PRINT AND GET THE KINDLE FREE! The seventeenth issue of the Crime Factory noir journal. Swollen with fiction, articles, interviews, reviews and more. Long fiction by The Horror Show (film) and Gleaming Spires frontman, Les Bohem. True crime reportage by Kim Walker. Interviews with Cold Shot to the Heart author Wallace Stroby; and Rhymes For Young Ghouls writer/director Jeff Barnaby. Fiction by Jen Conley; Matthew Asprey; Carmen Jaramillo; Aaron Fox-Lerner; Iain Ryan; Max Sheridan; Josh Gray; Hugh Lessig and Eddie McNamara. Reportage on a night with Perfidia and L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy by Gilbert Colon. Benjamin Welton gives an appreciation of the Krimi films of the 1960s. An appreciation of Fletch by Ryan K. Lindsay. CF editor L. Scott Jose shares his personal experience of real life crime. Plus reviews from the usual miscreants and players. Read it, if it were a magazine, it'd read you.
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Hidden Riches
Award-winning author Felicia Mason introduces us to a respectable Southern family turned upside-down by grief...and a hilarious and sometimes undignified search for a huge inheritance... After a lifetime spent scrubbing and mending for others, Ana Mae Futrell has passed away. Her siblings have reluctantly returned to their North Carolina hometown to bury the older sister they never really bothered to know. For instance, they didn’t know she’d won big on a lottery ticket. Or that she had a son. But back to the money—Ana Mae’s millions will go only to the person who can interpret the clues she’s left behind in a quilt. If they all fail, the fortune goes to Ana Mae’s cats—and a Re...
Mickey Finn Vol. 1
Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir is a crime-fiction cocktail that will knock readers into a literary stupor. Contributors push hard against the boundaries of crime fiction, driving their work into places short crime fiction doesn’t often go, into a world where the mean streets seem gentrified by comparison and happy endings are the exception rather than the rule. And they do all this in contemporary settings, bringing noir into the 21st century. Like any good cocktail, Mickey Finn is a heady mix of ingredients that packs a punch, and when you’ve finished reading every story, you’ll know that you’ve been “slipped a Mickey.” The twenty contributors, some of today’s most respected short-story writers and new writers making their mark on the genre, include J.L. Abramo, Ann Aptaker, Trey R. Barker, Michael Bracken, Barb Goffman, David Hagerty, James A. Hearn, David H. Hendrickson, Jarrett Kaufman, Mark R. Kehl, Hugh Lessig, Steve Liskow, Alan Orloff, Josh Pachter, Steve Rasnic Tem, Mikal Trimm, Bev Vincent, Joseph S. Walker, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Stacy Woodson.
