Fiction, Crime
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Dead Man's Legacy
by Peter Bono
Salvatore Marchetti has spent thirty-two years working at the same small bank in Queens and his heart is failing, so when amateur bank robbers overlook a small fortune during a heist, Sal seizes the chance of a lifetime—he pockets the cash for...
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Woes of a Lonely Child
by G. K. Osei Shanton and Peter Osei
This is a story about a man named King who transformed an abusive childhood into a criminal enterprise worth millions. He left home with his younger brother when they were teenagers to escape constant hunger and violent abuse of their mother....
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The Crucifix
by Ray Sproule
At the age of fourteen, Marciano kills a pedophilic abbot with the sharpened point of a crucifix, driving him to take refuge in a remote mountain villa in Corsica, devoted to training assassins and forcing him into a career as a notorious...
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What's So Bloody Funny?
by Tim Galbraith
Dylan Davis is a funny guy, but his regular standup gig at the Carney Chop Shop doesn’t pay for more than a crummy car and a crummier apartment, and the club owner Dimitri is always telling him he’s not that good. So Dylan tends to forget about...
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Garbage Boy
The High Bar of Low Expectations by Michael McMullen
Garbage Boy—a.k.a. Scarface, a.k.a. William—has had it rough his entire life. Facing off against a deadbeat dad and his mom’s abusive boyfriend, he’s had to fight every step of the way just to survive. Not only that, his family’s low social...
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Smith and Weston
Crime Case Tales Vol. Two by Doris Nickles
In the gritty world of River City, a new surge of crime threatens to drown the city in darkness. But this time, the corruption runs deeper, infesting the very heart of the justice system itself. Among those standing as the last line of defense...
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Death at the Point
by Andrew Dutfield
Some see outsized beauty where others only see bleakness, like the sweeping landscape of Hecla Island, situated two hours north of Winnipeg, Canada. Death at the Point is largely set in this real-life area with Icelandic roots that originally...
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American Ringer
by Alan Benning
To most, it would seem that English businessman and horse-racing aficionado Richard Montrose has it all, with three successful businesses—a car dealership and a small farm in Norfolk, England, and a development corporation in Barcelona, Spain—as...
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Bad Karma
by Richard Chartrand
Bad Karma is the thrilling story of a small vigilante group intent on avenging the financial mistreatment of their family and friends. Led by marine vet, Malcolm Jennings, and his cyber expert wife, the vigilantes gather an arsenal of weapons,...
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Man in the Meadow
by Roger Groening
When a man is found dead in an aster meadow near Northford, Saskatchewan, on a lovely fall day in 1975, Sergeant Arnold Powell is tasked with unravelling a puzzling case with entirely too many potential suspects. The dead man in question, Clayton...
