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A rural Welsh community is beset by a series of cruel murders... Putting his wedding plans on hold, Detective Winter Meadows resolves to unmask the serial killer on his patch. The only connection between the victims is the stick dolls left by their bodies. That and the fact they don’t seem to have been particularly popular. People are ruffled. Scared. Meadows must isolate the killer fast but the evidence is brittle. The key to unravelling the mystery is in the stone church, in the creaking homes, and in the slowly thawing fields.

As Ken Burrows sat at his battered desk contemplating the tolling bell of print journalism’s decline and his own imminent retirement, he recalled the mysterious dead man, found at the base of Skimmington’s War Memorial so many years ago. He’d been young, handsome and some mother’s son, and yet, when the police removed his clothing, they discovered that all identifying labels had all been cut away. Found in the man’s pockets was a strange collection of possessions that only served to deepen the mystery, and when the pathologist determined that the man had been poisoned, the story ...

A WWII soldier returns to his small town in Upstate New York with no memory of his past. Someone is following him and he doesn't know why. Once he arrives at a home he can't remember, he discovers two very different women appear to have designs on him. Shadowed by a mysterious stranger, and romantically confused, he must make his way through the dark corridors in his mind and remember, before it's too late...

Book one in the exciting new Noir Shots series concerns a hot office affair turning sour. Set during the 1940s, laced with spice and a sense of impending doom, and featuring an old-fashioned femme fatale, this homage to the darker side of noir hits all the right notes. An unforgettable noir short dripping with atmosphere.

Along the lonely backroads of Kentucky, a trucker deliberately flying under the radar and a beautiful woman stranded in the rain come together. Whether they’ve met by chance, or design becomes murkier as their tragic and dangerous secrets are slowly revealed to one another. Even as a tender romance takes wing, those secrets bring the possibility of violence that threaten not only their lives, but their very souls. One final secret leads to a romantically haunting sacrifice which culminates in inescapable violence, in this tender and mysterious Noir Shot entry. * Contains mature themes and...

Two 1940s romantic noir stories of suspense! In I WON'T FORGET YOU, a young woman is left rudderless when the local soldier boy she'd planned to marry sends her a Dear Jane letter. Spring returns to her heart when a second chance at love unexpectedly comes her way. She soon finds herself in a nightmare, however, when he disappears just as they are to be married. The police are convinced the man existed only in the woman's mind. Vowing to never forget him, she finds herself in a sanitarium, where only one man can help her. In THE UNLOCKED WINDOW, a woman who lost her husband during the war ...

When the most beautiful woman Ray has ever seen is dumped on his doorstep, love quickly blossoms. But she's in the kind of jam that doesn't go away, and he soon realizes he'll have to take it on the lam to South America until things blow ever. That means he'll be leaving Matt and all his new friends behind. But with someone gunning for his new love, he may need their help to get there.

In SLOW HOT WIND, Beautiful Hollywood star Lila Chantry walks into gumshoe Sam Barlow's office with a sad story of a husband gone astray. Barlow quickly discovers that he's strayed much further than Lila understands. Blackmail, gangsters, a big Hollywood studio and a race to Mexico in a slow hot wind all come into play for a whiz-bang 1940s detective story in the grand pulp tradition. In GLASS ALIBI, Mike walks into a diner on a rainy San Francisco night, but inside is a different kind of storm. Nora is a luscious brunette with a black eye and a husband sucking the life out of her. As if ...

One good thing is all Jack has going for him as he awaits execution. When he begins recalling the events which led him to Death Row, a tale of a man trying to redeem himself through one selfless act emerges. But in a noir world where fate has the last laugh, whether his one good thing will be enough to save him is unclear. The second in the Noir Shots series is a homage to the great Cornell Woolrich, in both its soft-boiled sentimentality, and its acceptance that fate will always have the final word.

A lovely young woman must finally leave the orphanage which has been the only home, and family she has ever known. Traveling to Palm Beach, Florida by train, Anne meets the man of her innocent dreams, and is quickly drawn into an old-fashioned noir vortex of love, wealth, and murder. Reminiscent of black and white noir melodramas of yesteryear, I Died Twice is a romantic and involving tale of noir suspense set during the 1940s. Re-proofed, Edited and Revised 9-30-2022

A detective from Los Angeles who has relocated to lovely Málaga, Spain. An equally breathtaking young woman married to a brutal arms dealer. A suave Interpol agent who makes the detective an offer difficult to refuse. Soon Nick Page and beautiful Alisha Fontaine are on the run as a web of danger and intrigue threatens to trap them forever in this thrilling and romantic noir. Set amidst the Andalusian city so beautiful that Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier chose to stop there on their honeymoon, the exciting second entry in the Romantic Noir series of novelettes is an adventure no reader will...

The third entry in the Noir Shots series of short noir stories is a deeply moving and emotionally powerful tale of big city despair. Two children growing up together are at the whims of a father who might be far more than just a mean drunkard. As they grow closer, forming a bond borne of circumstance and desperation, their lives spiral toward an act of violence that almost seems fated. Beginning at the end, and then revealing how it got there through the haunted memories of the young man, a heartbreaking story emerges. * This ceaselessly somber noir contains mature themes and sensitive ...

Il 14 dicembre 1994 non è un mercoledì come tutti gli altri a Peckham Rye, nel sud di Londra. Diana Lloyd giace ai piedi delle scale della sua antica villetta a schiera in stile georgiano. Qualcuno l’ha spinta giù dal terzo piano, prendendola alle spalle. La pioggia batte incessante sui vetri e Diana ha la vista oscurata, riesce solo a sentire il bisbigliare confuso dei suoi inquilini. L’anziana proprietaria non voleva che quella bizzarra famiglia piena di debiti entrasse in casa sua, ma non si possono scegliere gli inquilini in quella parte della città. La casa di Rye Lane allontana tutti.

Captain Neale Jordan lands in Los Angeles after the war, becoming a private detective. Three years down the line he finds himself restless, and sick of the City of Angels. News about the tragic death of a young soldier under his command during the war takes him to San Francisco. Jordan knows Andy could never have killed himself, and so does his lovely sister, Ellen, who is a reporter for The San Francisco Mirror. The only clue Andy left them, however, is an old photo of actress Claire Allen. Claire was tragically murdered during the war, her killer never found. From San Francisco to ...

Glenn Colby’s fishing vacation across the border begins with a wild bang when he picks up a sweet but insatiable little Mexican girl in a cantina on his way to Puerto de Angeles. Once Colby meets Tammy Kanakaredes in Puerto de Angeles, however, his plans change. Her desperate situation coupled with their passionate romantic entanglement leads to thoughts of murder. Looking for another way out, Colby contacts crime boss Don Miguel, and learns information which might give him the leverage he needs to both get the girl, and stay alive while he’s doing it. Filled with innuendo, unabashed ...

Paul Harwood landed in a small town in Mexico when he escaped a powerful father in Miami. Years have passed, and he has found happiness living the simple life. A chance encounter with a beautiful woman running from her past, however, soon becomes fraught with danger for both Paul and the woman he loves. Romantic yet gritty, and with the kind of ending dreams are made of, this soft and romantically tender variation on modern noir pays homage to the past, while being firmly entrenched in the present. A twelve-chapter novelette which kicks off a new series of soft noir novelettes blending ...

Cada año la prostitución explota a más de dos millones y medio de personas en el mundo. Miles, son mujeres obligadas a prostituirse. Más de doscientas sufren la diaria y cruel explotación en las calles, los prostíbulos o las carreteras de Barcelona. Una de ellas me cambió la vida.

A detective is hired to find out what happened to the wealthy father of a beautiful heiress on a mysterious island called Flowering Cay. Once he arrives at the island just off the coast of Cuba, he encounters rumors of other men mysteriously disappearing. Each man was last seen in the company of a lusciously beautiful woman named Havana. Her ability to enchant is exceeded only by the islanders' fear of her. This modern homage to the spicy pulp adventures of old, specifically those with a weird menace vibe, is great fun for fans of the half-penny-a-word pulp magazines of yesteryear.

When a series of mutating virus strains ravage their megacity, Jo Lamp has one purpose in life: protect his six-year-old niece, Yima, at all costs, which becomes a full-time job when his sister dies. And guess what? He finds out his solitary and occasionally violent life has not prepared him for the job. And despite all of his attempts to shield his niece from the danger and ugliness of the new world, his niece becomes a killer, just like her uncle, when she saves his life.

Ray Spalding's had enough of his wife, Paula. He's left his home in Edinburgh's Southside and headed for Belfast. It's safer there. Unknown to Ray, Paula's also had enough of him. She's not going back home. Not now, not ever. Jesse Spalding wakes up one morning to find both his parents gone. And he can't tell anyone or he'll be taken into care. As time passes and bills need paying, all Jesse can rely on are his wits, his friend Archie and his dad's 1950s record collection. Southsiders is a powerful short novel that follows the spiralling fortunes of Ray and Jesse, pushing father and son to ...