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Kill Me When You Can by William Alan Webb

A dead society is a polite society in this Future Noir tale of double-dealing, greed and love at first sight.

Murder is obsolete now that LifeEnders Inc. is in on the scene. Only assassins of the highest moral and ethical caliber receive the coveted License to Kill issued to associates of the world’s first murder-for-hire corporation. But when human frailty rears its ugly head all bets are off.

Told in legacy style of Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler, with a heaping helping of Mickey Spillane, the hero could be Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe or Mike Hammer, while the dame could be Lauren Bacall, Joan Crawford or Barbara Stanwyck. Come back to the days of fast action and snappy dialogue, when men were men and women led them around by the nose.

Southern Bound by Stuart Jaffe

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Southern Bound by Stuart Jaffe

When Max Porter discovers his office is haunted by the ghost of a 1940s detective, he does the only sensible thing … he starts a detective agency!

Thrust neck-deep into a world of old mysteries and dangerous enemies, he will face ghosts, witches, and curses. He will discover a world in which survival might be the easiest challenge. And he will do anything necessary to keep his wife and his life from falling away.

Real history meets the paranormal in this thrilling, suspenseful series!

Free Book 08/19/2016: The Shill by John Shepphird

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Struggling actress Jane Innes is seduced by a handsome new arrival in her acting class. He makes a proposition. He admits he’s a con man and needs Jane to pose as a rich, carefree heiress to fulfill her part in his intricate scam.

Would you agree? Or run the other way?

All goes as planned until Jane’s true identity threatens to surface and their scheme begins to crack at the seams.

It all leads to a tangled maze of deception, depravity and murder.

THE SHILL is part one of a trilogy from Shamus Award winning author, John Shepphird.

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John Shepphird is a Shamus Award-winning author and writer/director of TV movies. His novellas THE SHILL, KILL THE SHILL, and BEWARE THE SHILL complete a trilogy published by Down & Out Books. A finalist for the 2015 Anthony Award, his short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Crimestalker Casebook and the anthology 44 Caliber Funk: Tales of Crime, Soul and Payback.

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Bargain Book for 09/02/2015: Flank Street by A.J. Sendall

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Flank Street is told from the distorted reality of Micky DeWitt, a shiftless career criminal and world sailor. Micky arrives in Sydney, on his rundown boat, broke and on the lookout for opportunity. He takes a job as barman in Sydney’s red light district, where eventually he’s approached by a woman who needs something stolen.
Nothing is what it seems, as Micky falls into a honey trap that spins his life out of control and pushes him to the edge of sanity.

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Bargain Book: The Dead Pond: A Short Novel by Jason Ryan Dale

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Tina has something to tell her lover. To temper the inevitable awkward moment, she has arranged a visit to the beach, where, she hopes, the sunshine and her string bikini will put her boyfriend, Marty, in a good mood. Tina is worried how he will react, but not because she’s afraid of hurting his feelings. As far as she can tell, he has no feelings. Tina has never understood what place she has in Marty’s life, which makes her part in his future a complete mystery.

But Marty reacts strangely. Totally out of character, he reveals to Tina the most important pieces of his past. When he was young like Tina, Marty was forced to choose between his friends and his ambition. Given an opportunity to prove himself to the most powerful gangster in the city, Marty must harden his heart and complete a task which horrifies him.

They were never a well-matched couple, but today they will teach one another lessons few ever learn.

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Bargain Book for 05/26/2015: The Undertaker’s Son by B. A. Spicer

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Moving to France is a bold step for Martha Burton, but she is an independent woman of considerable means and soon establishes herself in a beautiful Charentaise house in the village of St. Martin-le-Vieux. Looking for love? Of course she is. However, the idyll is about to be shattered. Claude Cousteau lives in harsher, more dangerous world. A world which will bring a terrible perspective to Martha’s hopes of personal happiness.

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Bargain Book for 12/22/2014: Iraqi Icicle Second Edition by Bernie Dowling

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A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman …

With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness.

Pulled from his cosy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub and the gambling den, everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger, as he is sucked into the undertow of forces beyond his understanding. One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz, channeling Hendrix, and tapping into military software and magic mushrooms.

The fix is in and the bodies are piling up.

Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious ride through the dark and murky worlds of gambling, drugs, politics and rock’n’roll.

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Hammurabi Road by Steve Vernon

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Hammurabi Road is a dark redneck noir tale of retribution, backwoods justice, and getting closer to a black bear than was ever dreamed possible. We start off with the eternal triangle – four men ride out in a pick-up truck; three in front and one duct-taped and bound in the back. It’s a clear cut case of Northern Ontario railroad vengeance, served up as cold as a frozen hunting knife.

Another tale from the author of the acclaimed hockey/vampire novella SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME – also available on Kindle.

“If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon.” – BOOKGASM

“Steve Vernon was born to write. He’s the real deal and we are lucky to have him.” – Richard Chizmar, CEMETERY DANCE

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Kill Me When You Can by William Alan Webb

Southern Bound by Stuart Jaffe

Free Book 08/19/2016: The Shill by John Shepphird

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Bargain Book: The Dead Pond: A Short Novel by Jason Ryan Dale

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