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Excerpt from the first chapter: Encounter My name is Brian Blackdeath. Of course it is not my real name. It’s a self -imposed pseudonym. What grew inside of me as a child I simply refer to it as the Urge. What the Urge really is, a story unto its self, hard to explain in just a few...

Outlaws. It's what makes the best of country music and crime fiction. Sometimes it's hardened criminals: murders, thieves, and convicts, sometimes it's just a poor fool driven to the edge by hard times, hard drinking, or a hard lover. In this collection you will find stories from the...

The debut novel from the creator of Thuglit. Boo Malone lost everything when he was sent to St. Gabriel's Home for Boys. There, he picked up a few key survival skills; a wee bit of an anger management problem; and his best friend for life, Junior. Now adults, Boo and Junior have a combined...

Malcolm Cavanaugh Bleekston, MC Bleak, McBleak, enjoys hobnobbing with the one percenters and stealing from them. In The Extractors, he puts his life on the line to take a greedy man’s gain while wondering if his girlfriend sees through his façade. Ned “Noc” Brenner is a drifter with...

Cry Hard, Cry Fast, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. A gunman on the lam. A sullen sixteen-year-old on a family vacation. A jaded working girl. A guilt-stricken widower....

Chris Massi has been running from his world his entire life. The son of a Mafia assassin and the former son-in-law of a mob kingpin, Massi has tried to stay on the right side of the law, building a prestigious career as an attorney, and insulating his children as much as possible. But now a series...

In the course of an interrogation, Gabriel Carter, a homicide detective, whose life has been spiraling out of control, and a fourteen year-old junkie named Dylan, whose life has finally hit bottom, discover they have more in common than either one of them could imagine, and maybe form a bond that...

In one of the most beautiful corners of England, something very bad is about to take place. A sniper with a mission… a young cop with nothing to lose… a CSI with everything to prove… a teenage girl with a terrifying obsession… There’s a killer on the loose in the Lake District,...

"Family secrets, childhood memories, and old crimes influence the present in this suspenseful debut. Kate is a gutsy character, and her romance with Sam is enjoyable. An open-ended finale leaves room for future conflicts within the Magda family...A solid bet for fans of dark crime dramas." --Library...

Includes stories by John Picha, Grant Gardiner, Bard Constantine, Jack Philpott This action-packed ePulp Anthology unleashes four new noir tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Blazing brawls and gritty adventure awaits dieselpunks, nostalgians, die hard or pulp-curious...

In a world trying to rebuild after a pandemic killed billions, Bakersfield would be just another ghost town except for the large pool of oil lying beneath it. Jim Cross arrives to find a boom town with all the trouble money can buy—including murder. Frederick Sawyer controls the oil and the town,...

Who is Chris Cable? — straight, tough, a little stupid, loves women, fights with men to retain his self respect and win as often as possible. That's why he carries a gun, a particularly nice gun, a SIG-Sauer 1911. When it's shot out of his hand, a crippling injury, Chris has to get by with a little...

Maurice Debar is a petty thug. He carries out one-man hold-ups or “works” alongside Jimmy, another criminal, a regular guy. He is inclined to bear grudges. He hangs out with Hermine who quickly ‘blows’ all his illegal earnings. All the same, Maurice pulls off a big deal, on the up-and-up,...

With a month off from Homicide, soft-boiled detective Stanley Bentworth bails out to accept an invitation from an old pal to consult as head of security for a high-tech startup corporation.But when a company executive is discovered with a bullet in his brain, Stanley finds himself drawn into a...