'Because Lydia didn't have arms or legs, she shelled out three thousand bucks to a washed up middleweight named Cap to give her ex-husband the beating of his life.' But the beating turns to murder, and the murder into lust and desperation between Lydia and an underworld clean-up man. Meanwhile, overgrown frat boy car thieves take up cop killing as a side hobby. When these paths cross, a horror show of violence unfolds as they all slide into a hell of their own design, surrounded by the neon and noise of the casino strip on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Violent, vivid, life at hyper-speed. This debut novel from the editor of Plots with Guns is a noir nightmare that asks how much is too much in a relationship, and what is the cost of leaving? Ken Bruen calls it 'the darkest song I've ever read'.

Psychosomatic

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Smith, Anthony Neil

Mystery

Wildside Pr

"Because Lydia didn't have arms or legs, she shelled out three thousand bucks to a washed up middleweight named Cap to give her ex-husband the beating of his life." But the beating turns to murder, and the murder into lust and desperation between Lydia and an underworld clean-up man. Meanwhile, overgrown frat boy car thieves take up cop killing as a side hobby. When these paths cross, a horror show of violence unfolds as they all slide into a hell of their own design, surrounded by the neon and noise of the casino strip on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Violent, vivid, life at hyper-speed. This debut novel from the editor of Plots with Guns is a noir nightmare that asks how much is too much in a relationship, and what is the cost of leaving? Ken Bruen calls it "the darkest song I've ever read".

Plots With Guns

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Dennis McMillan Pubns

The Baddest Ass (Billy Lafitte #3)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

All the Young Warriors

Thrillers & Suspense

Createspace Independent Pub

Slow Bear

Fahrenheit Press

Trash Pandas

<p>Called to a crime scene when a terrified woman raises the alarm on a horrifying murder, Detective Hosea Elgin finds the victim’s body has been dismembered with professional precision. Very quickly, two small-time drug dealers are identified as the probable assailants and a manhunt is launched to bring them into custody.With the two suspects on the run, the consequences of their actions continue to spiral out of control and it becomes clear that while one of them is focused on survival, the other wants only revenge.As the net begins to tighten on the fugitives, Detective Elgin finds that the case begins to move very close to home and what began as just another murder investigation is developing into something much more personal.The decisions he makes and the actions he takes may well solve the case and bring the criminals to justice, but in the process he might just tear his family and his church to pieces.With The Butcher’s Prayer, Anthony Neil Smith shows once again he’s a writer at the very top of his game. This immersive piece of Southern Gothic Noir certainly isn’t for the faint-hearted but with the skill and nuance we’ve come to expect from Smith he dazzles with writing that is precise, measured and never gratuitous.Praise for The Butcher’s Prayer“The Butcher’s Prayer is wine-dark noir, with a hammering and bloody heart. This is Smith at his bleak and soulful best.” — Laura Benedict, Edgar-nominated author of The Stranger Inside"Anthony Neil Smith is a massive talent. One of the very best crime writers I've ever read." — Allan Guthrie, author of Kiss Her Goodbye and Hard Man."Visceral, propulsive writing that cuts like a razor. Think Elmore Leonard with an injection of Southern Gothic. Heady stuff." — Dan Fesperman, author of Safe Houses."Crime-fiction veteran Anthony Neil Smith wields a smooth yet serrated style that's carved him two decades worth of fierce material, now being re-discovered by a younger upstart audience of modern noir enthusiasts. He possesses such an acute, vivid feel of time and place in his subjects, his stories immediately burrow into my memory and remain long, withstanding the static storms of our contemporary attention-deficits. It's challenging stuff, yet wholly accessible; with spiking dark humor that confirms sure you still have a pulse." — Gabriel Hart, author of Fallout From Our Asphalt Hell</p>

The Butcher's Prayer

Fahrenheit 13

<p>"Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law -- he just pretends to enforce it, rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport, Mississippi, and he's been given a second chance -- in the desolate, Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota. Now Billy's only got the local girls and local booze to keep him company. Until one of the local girls -- cute little Drew, bassist for a psychobilly band -- asks Billy for help with her boyfriend. Something about the drugs Ian might have been selling, some product he may have lost, and the men who are threatening him. Billy agrees to look into it, and before long he's speeding down a snowy road, tracking a cell of terrorists, with a severed head in his truck. And that's only the start . . ." Book Jacket.</p>

Yellow Medicine

United States

Bleak House Books

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