Little Sisters, Volume 1

This collection of short stories showcases the talents of new mystery writers from across the USA and the UK. Though neither connected with nor endorsed by Sisters in Crime, as the title suggests it was inspired by that fine organization, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Parker, Heather

Ward, Thomas

Chen, Sarah M.

Degani, Gay

Miller, Loretta Scott

Piche, Kathleen

Bartos-Pool, Gayle

Houlihan, Shelley

Morin, Patricia L.

Kingsbury, Susan Lynn

Mystery

Shannon Road Press

The Fast Women and Neon Lights anthology is a wild criminal romp inspired by eighties crime movies and television shows, as well as the wacky, over-the-top eighties style and aesthetic. These eighteen hard-hitting, emotional, and often-hilarious stories written by some of today's top neo-noir authors will disturb you, make you laugh, and most of all, keep you highly entertained from cover to cover! Car thieves, down-on-their-luck Karate guys, out-of-control valley girls, Air Jordan-obssesed clutz robbers, professional opponent wrestlers, aspiring female wrestlers, Oingo Boingo-obsessed cocaine fiends, vice cop mashups, high-stakes gamblers, and heroin-addicted punk rock managers are just a taste of what you'll find in these dark pages!

Fast Women and Neon Lights: Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir

Literature & Fiction

Cosby, S.A.

COOPER, PATRICK

Richardson, Kat

Pool, Michael

Lauden, S.W.

Kalteis, Dietrich

Wiebe, Sam

Genre Fiction

Short Stack Books

Looking for crime fiction featuring kickass women? Then Betty's your gal. We're back with new short stories from nine kickass writers: Lara Alonso Corona Sarah M. Chen Nikki Dolson John H. Dromey Tess Makovesky Colleen Quinn Thomas Pluck Shane Simmons Albert Tucher

Betty Fedora Issue Two: Kickass Women in Crime Fiction

Valentine, Kristen

Alonso Corona, Lara

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Here's what we know is true. Timmy Milici, a low-level hitter with the infamous Atlanta-based Duplass crime family, ran off with Melody Duplass to Jacksonville, Florida. Olivia Duplass, her mother and head of the Duplass family, was incensed, and put a price on Timmy--a hundred thousand for his corpse, but with explicit instructions that her daughter not be harmed. We know that's true. Or, at least, we think we do. Sixteen writers tell their versions of what happened those fateful days in this gripping novel-in-stories, brought to you from the team behind The Night of the Flood. Contributors: E.A. Aymar, Sarah M. Chen, Hilary Davidson, Alex Dolan, Rebecca Drake, Gwen Florio, Elizabeth Heiter, J.J. Hensley, Susi Holliday, Shannon Kirk, Tara Laskowski, Jenny Milchman, Alan Orloff, Tom Sweterlitsch, Art Taylor, and Wendy Tyson.

The Swamp Killers: A Novel in Stories

Laskowski, Tara

Milchman, Jenny

Sweterlitsch, Tom

Tyson, Wendy

Taylor, Art

Orloff, Alan

Aymar, E.A.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Down & Out Books

Los Angeles is the City of Angels. But these natives of Los Angeles don't wear halos.\nFrom the beaches of Palos Verdes to the San Gabriel Valley, from Beverly Hills to Pasadena, this anthology sprawls across Los Angeles County with stories of vengeance, retribution and justice served cold. Avenging Angelenos, from newborns to neighbors, physicians to funeral directors, athletes, artists, students and teachers, have scores to settle and a nefarious itch under their skin that's got to be scratched.\nAvenging Angelenos, a Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles anthology, is edited by Sarah M. Chen, Wrona Gall, and Pamela Samuels Young, with an introduction by Frankie Y. Bailey. It includes original stories by Avril Adams, Paula Bernstein, Hal Bodner, Jenny Carless, L.H. Dillman, Gay Toltl Kinman, Melinda Loomis, Kathy Norris, Peggy Rothschild, Meredith Taylor, and Laurel Wetzork.

Avenging Angelenos: A Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles Anthology

"Yes, this is a violent world that Nate inhabits, but he steers a true and moral course through the layers of deception, skullduggery and sometime worse that make these stories such high-density entertainment."T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Room of White FireIn this rollicking collection private investigator Nate Hollis, a routine visit to the dentist sends him into an underground world of addictive vices; hunts a killer in the dead of winter in Chicago; uncovers secrets from the buried past; stalks the stalker of super hero street performers in the back alleys of Tinseltown; braves the unforgiving streets of New York City to stop a killer, and more in this electric-charged assortment of stories.New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky, Edgar winner Naomi Hirahara, Deadly Ink nominee Sarah M. Chen, hardboiled adept Scott Adlerberg, and new pulpster Phillip Drayer Duncan along with Hollis' creator and 2018 Anthony Award winner Gary Phillips (Black Pulp, Peepland) deliver tales of a P.I. who Kevin Burton Smith in Mystery Scene magazine said was "Slick as spit, big-shouldered Hollis walks the walk and talks the talk..." This edition also includes two previously published Hollis stories by Phillips, "King Cow" and "Hollywood Killer."Praise for the previous Nate Hollis collection, Hollis P.I."Each story entertained and what was a little bit surprising to me was the consistency of voice, from our author collective presenting our intrepid investigator Nate."Goodreads review "...excellent stories that really filled the bill!"Amazon review

Gary Phillips' Hollis For Hire

Phillips, Gary

HIRAHARA, Naomi

Paretsky, Sara.

Duncan, Phillip Drayer

Adlerberg, Scott

United States

Independently published

IT'S NOIR IF WE SAY IT'S NOIRSelected from 100s of entries to a short story competition run by Fahrenheit Press in late 2017, the 15 stories that make up NOIRVILLE represent some of the very best crime fiction being written today.This collection includes a selection of both new and established writers - the only criteria we gave the judges was that the stories had to be awesome.Featuring stories from; S.E. Bailey, Sarah M. Chen, Patsy Collins, Russell Day, Jen Delozier, Paul Gadsby, Joe Guglielmelli, Chris Hyatt, Scott Miles, John Scheck, John Schreier, Alex Shaw, Jeff C. Stevenson, Marc Sorondo &amp; Glenda Young With huge thanks to our judges; Jo Perry, Kate Moloney, Gordon McGhie, Janet Emson, Verity Wilde &amp; David Nemeth.“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.” - Jim Thompson

Noirville: Short Stories From The Dark Side

Collins, Patsy

Miles, Scott

Bailey, S.E.

Day, Russell

Delozier, Jen

Gadsby, Paul

Guglielmelli, Joe

Hyatt, Chris

Scheck, John

Fahrenheit Press

Never before has killing someone benefitted such a good cause… In 2014, Crimespree Magazine held an internet-based flash fiction contest. The rules were simple: somewhere in the story you had to “Kill Dan Malmon.” That was it. The story had to be brief, inventive, and somewhere, Malmon had to die. Now, thanks to Down &amp; Out Books, those original stories, plus a few more, are being collected into one volume with all proceeds going to the MS Society. If you hate MS as much as we do, and if your feelings towards Dan Malmon are rather ambivalent anyway, then this is the volume for you. Featuring stories by Hector Acosta, Eric Beetner, Dana Cameron, Sarah M. Chen, Matthew Clemens, Angel Luis Colón, Hilary Davidson, Cory Funk, Danny Gardner, Paul J. Garth, Rob Hart, Ed Kurtz, S.W. Lauden, Russel D. McLean, Jeff Macfee, Erin Mitchell, Erica Ruth Neubauer, Brad Parks, Thomas Pluck, Bryon Quertermous, Todd Robinson, Alex Segura, Jeff Shelby, Nathan Singer, Josh Stallings, Jay Stringer, R.D. Sullivan, Bryan VanMeter, Holly West and Dave White. Praise for KILLING MALMON: “I’ve never quite understood why people keep killing off Malmon. But they make a good case. Several cases. Many, many cases—for a good cause! Killing Malmon for fun and non-profit!” —Lori Rader-Day, Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of The Day I Died “You can’t spell marvelously grisly and a funky good time without K-I-L-L-I-N-G M-A-L-M-O-N. Do yourself a favor and dive in.” —Shaun Harris, author of The Hemingway Thief “Look, I like Dan Malmon, so I feel kinda guilty enjoying the hell out of his many untimely demises. But this collection, which features some of the best crime writers on the planet, is a gonzo pulp confection that hits your system like a sugar high and leaves you smiling the whole way through.” —Chris Holm, Anthony Award-winning author of The Killing Kind and Red Right Hand “Your mom is going to hate this.” —Kristi Belcamino, author of the Gabriella Giovanni thriller series “Killing Malmon is an incredibly satisfying crime fiction sampler. Read it. I guarantee you’ll leave with at least three new writers to check out (plus an inexplicable desire to protect and nurture Dan Malmon).” —Jess Lourey, TEDx presenter and Anthony- and Lefty-nominated author of the Witch Hunt thrillers and the Murder by Month mysteries “Come for the death of Dan Malmon, stay for the super-group of authors letting it all hang out, dropping tasty cut after tasty cut of pure noir.” —Matthew FitzSimmons, author of the Gibson Vaughn series “Killing Malmon is like Murder on the Orient Express except (spoilers!) it’s not by Agatha Christie, or on a train, or on its way to the Orient. Still, there’s something wonderful and sweet watching thirty talented mystery writers line up to shoot, strangle, poison, dismember, and otherwise spell the demise of the one of the genuinely nicest guys in the business. If you’re into that kind of thing like I am, read Killing Malmon.” —Matthew Iden, author of the Marty Singer mystery series and The Winter Over “Life sure is hard for you.” —Judy Malmon, Dan’s mom “I love these stories!” —Diane Hackbarth, Kate’s mom

Killing Malmon

Parks, Brad

Davidson, Hilary

Clemens, Matthew

Hart, Rob

Stallings, Josh

Kurtz, Ed

Beetner, Eric

Colón, Angel Luis

Cleaning Up Finn

Thrillers & Suspense

All Due Respect

“Each of the 14 varied and fitfully amusing stories in this solid anthology takes as its starting point the destruction of a dam and the subsequent flooding of Everton, PA. Aymar and Chen deserve kudos for putting together a distinctive anthology.” —Publishers Weekly It happened the night Maggie Wilbourne was to be put to death, the first woman executed by the state of Pennsylvania in modern times. That was when a group of women passionately protesting Maggie’s imprisonment struck. They blew up a local dam, flooding the town of Everton and indirectly inspiring a hellish night of crime and chaos. Fourteen of today’s most exciting contemporary crime writers will take you to the fictional town of Everton, with stories from criminals, cops, and civilians that explore the thin line between the rich and the poor, the insider and the outsider, the innocent and the guilty. Whether it’s a store owner grimly protecting his property from looters, an opportunistic servant who sees her time to strike, or two misguided youths taking their anger out against any available victim, The Night of the Flood is an intricate and intimate examination of the moment when chaos is released—in both society and the human spirit. Contributors: E.A. Aymar, Rob Brunet, Sarah M. Chen, Angel Luis Colón, Hilary Davidson, Mark Edwards, Gwen Florio, Elizabeth Heiter, J.J. Hensley, Jennifer Hillier, Shannon Kirk, Jenny Milchman, Alan Orloff, and Wendy Tyson. Praise for THE NIGHT OF THE FLOOD: “Plenty of complex characters and hard edges. Take a breath, then hang on and enjoy this entertaining romp.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author “Bravo to all the authors who contributed to The Night of the Flood, a collection of brilliant short stories about residents of the dysfunctional town of Everton who are thrust into the turbulence of decisions that will forever change who they thought they were. A stormy page-turner that will leave you wanting more.” —Sandra Brannan, author of the award-winning Liv Bergen Mystery Series “A brilliant, multi-leveled concept, Faulknerian in its structure. A novel in stories. Wow. Fourteen exciting crime writers create a rare three-dimensional mosaic of a doomed town and the night hell flooded through it. Terrifically exciting. Wonderfully inventive.” —David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art “A brave concept brilliantly executed.” —Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher Series “An impressive collection of stories from some of the most talented writers working in the crime genre today.” —BOLO Books Review

The Night of the Flood

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