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She is a top enforcer for the yakuza syndicate, yet Koi wants out. But walking away from yakuza comes with a price, one Koi may have to pay while trying to secure her freedom. She is sent across the globe to hunt the elusive and dangerous gunrunner, Le Sauvage. Will Koi learn his secret before her time runs out or will she die trying?

1. The Blood on the Curb. The narrative follows morally questionable detective, George "Six-Shot" McGraw, a rough-around-the-edges, world-weary cop, only just returning to the job after the highly-publicized killing of a notorious mobster, and the investigation into an apparent gangland slaying, and the complicated truth and deadly consequences that lie at the core of the case. 2. It Comes in Threes. The devastating story of a man succumbing to his greatest suspicions. The ultimate fear and sheerest circumstances that drive an ordinary man into the darkest regions of the human psyche, propelling a short series of events that leave a bloody trail of misery for those closest to him. A story of love, friendship, paranoia, possession, actuality, and murder. 3. A Killer Scoop. The story follows a young waitress in the heart of neighborhood being terrorized by an unidentified serial killer, and the two strangers who walk through the diner doors and forever alter her life; this includes the romantic interest - and the daunting discovery - of one of these strangers. Who both seem all too familiar with her. 4. Devil's Gypsy. Callous criminality runs rampant, loyalty is tested, and life is considered cheap in this hot-rodding, switchblade-wielding rumble of a story, following the violent twenty-four hours of an increasingly reckless gang member. 5. The Briefcase. When two low-life friends stumble across the violent aftermath of a mysterious meeting gone wrong on the backroads of the boondocks, what seems like a stroke of good luck takes multiple turns into murder and deception. 6. Lunchroom Verdict. This short story was meant as a crude farce, showcasing the indifference men of power can hold for human life when presented with even the remotest possibility of threat, with examples of sinister peer-pressure and self-preservation. 7. When They Came Back. The story, also told in numerous flashbacks, follows the return of psychopathic hitman Peter Ritten after his latest "job." As the night goes on, the memories this man used to relish take on a disturbing tangency - as if returning from the grave - and the hunter finds the tables turned. But nothing is as it seems. Even the hauntings.

Three intertwining stories: 1)Ann Silva has gone to Madrid to work at the conservation studio in the Museo del Prado. She is restoring a Flemish painting called Meeting on the Steps to Hades. The painter is Luc Grendel, a 16th-century Flemish painter and one of the three protégées of Hieronymus Bosh. 2)Taylor Bane is considering a run for the senate from California, but he has to rid himself of some bad baggage. In his college days, Taylor and a couple of his fraternity brothers brutally raped two girls at a frat Halloween party. The two girls were Annie and Mariel. Taylor has now hired an assassin, Liesbet Grendel, to kill Annie Silva. No sense bringing all of that into a senate race. 3)Liesbet has been killing for a long, long time. She's very good at what she does. The Prado also has Luc Grendel's diary as well as his painting. Annie has started to read the diary and the painter writes about a "Liesbet" by name. Luc begins to paint Meeting on the Steps to Hades. Liesbet feels betrayed. Angry and still in love, Liesbet can't bring herself to destroy either the painting or the diary. Luc also writes about her talking of "Worlds other than this one."

The name of the town should have been a clue. But when Helen, Roger, their daughter, Clair, and her friend, Heather, wanted an off-the-beaten-path interlude on their way to Ft. Lauderdale, they decided to stay at the Spa at Wicked Stop. Helen and Clair have a bad feeling ... but Roger overrules them. "Off the beaten path" is no exaggeration, but when they arrive on the palatial grounds of the Spa, Helen and Claire are relieved. Then while registering, they are ushered into a smaller room and locked in. Alarmed, then terrified, they can't even imagine the horrors that await them. They are determined to fight for their lives at every turn of this nightmarish tale that will have you on the edge of your seat ....

During the Spanish Civil War Frank Swiver and his college pal, Max Rabinowitz, both fall in love with Amanda Zingaro, but she and her father are shot by a local fascist strongman. Eleven years later in San Francisco in 1949, Frank, traumatized by the violence in Spain, has become a pacifist and makes a marginal living as a private eye. He is called into a murder that the cops hope to write off as suicide. Max, who lost an eye in Spain but owes his life to Frank, becomes a public defender and calls Frank in to help him build a defense for a Mexican accused of knifing a naked man in a hotel room. More puzzling, Max has met a woman in the case who is a dead ringer for Amanda, the woman they thought they'd lost years ago in Spain. What's going on?

Set in London in the recent, but now distant-seeming past, this noir thriller takes us into some dark places. As preoccupied with sex and violence as a Greek tragedy, it's also in a traditional of political satire taking in Hogarth, Swift and Orwell. At the heart of this story, which opens with the death of a scientist is a British Minister, Emma Henderson. She is a sexually-voracious Blairite with a convincing, media-friendly exterior but a troubled soul. When Rick Gilliver, a down-at-heel, alcohol-dependent journalist, accidentally
discovers her wrong doings, he embarks on a reluctant quest to bring her down. In this convincing, close-to-real tale, Henderson is the author of a "warped, Machiavellian primer,"
the New Labour papers. This document provides the spine of the story, providing a retrospective gloss on
what the author clearly sees as the deceptions and abuses of New Labour.

Twelve-year-old Franz lives in Prague, not far from the one-time home of the great literary figure, Kafka. Franz was even named for him. His mother, a GP who works at the university medical school, is worried about the rash on the boy's hand. Something strange is going around. The boy's father is an entomologist, who prefers painting to studying bugs. Franz has noticed he is being followed by a hirsute figure he calls the Wolf Lady. What does she want? Then following a tragedy, Franz is sent to live with his Uncle Max in Cuba. Life is becoming complicated in Franz's uncertain world.

Author Chris Roy is serving time for murder at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. So his stories have a basis in experience. This is a sequel to Shocking Circumstances Book I, a dark look at people who slip over the edge due to circumstances and bad decisions. You'll meet Shock, a female fighter ready with her fists. She's a character who will remain indelibly etched in your brain. This is second in a hot, new trilogy.

An American Marine finds himself a spectator in an unwinnable battle, watching his wife slowly consumed by cancer. Fulfilling her dying wish, they travel to Venice to wait for the end in a foreign city. Living in a decaying palazzo carved up into modern apartments, husband and wife find a bit of joy in a neighbor named Sophie, who is happy to bring the couple into her solitary existence. It isn't long, though, before they realize that Sophie is trapped in an unspoken relationship with the local crime lord, a sphinx of a man, who at best seems unhappy about his mistress' newfound friendships. The resulting tug-of-war drags the expatriate couple into Venetian lives, politics, and power struggles, revealing the American's violent past. One Sore Rib is a 21st century story set against a backdrop of the 14th, where an American blunders into a situation he doesn't understand.

Sol Dorsey would best be described as a throwback to the twenties or thirties. The big man grew up on pulp crime magazines, thought once about being a cop but changed his mind as soon as he heard about things like Miranda and perp's rights. "They got no rights. Bang a head, get an answer," was a continuing philosophy, which only became an issue when he found himself working for the cops. But when he got a message on his new digital answering machine that said, "I'm in trouble, Sol. I got nowhere else to turn" he knew he had to do something about it. After all, he was one of the best PIs on the west coast, hired by some police agencies to help with high profile crimes, disdained by others, well, because he was Simon Sol Dorsey.

Thomas Haftmann didn't recognize the word Saraband when the girl said it. He had to look it up: "a stately court dance from the eighteenth century in "slow triple time." Haftmann was a down-on-his-luck private eye with an ex-wife and debts, so he did skiptracing for a local bondsman. But then he takes an assignment to go to Florida to retrieve a runaway girl, a scholarship student named Raina Toivela. This job, I thought, will be easier than most. However, the assignment doesn't go as smoothly as he'd hoped. That's all too often the case for a private eye. Welcome to his world!

Rhea Waye always thought the marriage to her childhood sweetheart would last forever but it didn't work out that way and the loss threw her into a depression, though not the sort one would have expected. She found herself weeping for a father who had left her mother two months before Rhea was born. And it's this absence of a father that has now come back to haunt her, that empty part of her childhood. Her new therapist, Dr. Allison, said it best, "A new loss allows us to mourn all the others we miss, imagined or otherwise." When Rhea was a little girl, her mother made up bedtime stories about the father's adventures and also stories about Rhea and the father. So the puzzle of what was true and what was false left her with not just a mystery about a father who'd never showed himself but a sense that much of her childhood was a fiction. Rhea meets Edward only a month or two after the separation from her husband and she becomes obsessed with him. He fits her father fantasies perfectly. But Edward isn't her father. He is the worst sort of nightmare and Rhea is caught again in the middle ground between truth and fantasy. The truth is that she must ultimately save Edward's nephew and her own son from this man.

Elaborate cons, impossible heists and high-speed chases were his thing. His talent in boxing and engineering made those pursuits a gamble with death he never wanted to quit. Then he left the world of crime with his woman, a blonde bombshell who was also accomplished in boxing and was his engineering equal. Their late boxing coach gives them a reason to return to The Life with his last wish. His will instructs his former pupils to join with other multitalented individuals, form a team that will commit major crimes for the sake of communities on the Gulf Coast. A job Coach Eddy started before he was murdered: Taking on the Vietnamese Mafia.

Madison Park New Jersey was once filled with automobile and pharmaceutical plants. Not any longer. Much of the town now struggles with unemployment and a heroine epidemic. Brett Bernauer has an anger problem. He works fixing people's houses and their roofs. After hours, he focuses his attention on sexual predators. He grew up in Madison Park but moved out after a troubled childhood. When his mother dies, Brett and his sister Sarah are forced back to their hometown where they confront again the people that tormented them decades ago. Only now, those people make up the police department and head the local drug ring. After a series of run-ins with local cops and criminals, Brett concludes the only way to determine the future is to settle the past.

Ex-cop Thomas Haftmann, formerly of Cleveland Homicide, works as a private investigator in the resort town of Jefferson-on-the-Lake. You will follow his cases in these 15 short neo-noirs. Among them are "The Kneeling Woman," "Ni Escape, No Turning Back," "The Riding Boy," "The Slave Master's Dungeon," "Archangel's Daughter," "A Woman With Tea-Colored Eyes," and "The Dog Returneth to His Vomit." These have been collected from a variety of outstanding publications and blog sites, ranging from Powder Burn Flash to A Twist of Noir to Sex and Murder Magazine. Get ready to know Thomas Haftmann's dark world of murder and madness.

What would a champion boxer do if she was set up and imprisoned, lost her family, home and business, friends...her life? She would fight. With a killer instinct sharpened by despair and a raging maternal will, retired boxing phenom Clarice "Shocker" Ares experiences heart-wrenching loss and unrivaled joy in her quest to escape prison hell and reunite her family.

Biederbeck, Montana PI Ed Bouchee is asked by his friend Dirt Tidrow to quietly look into a series of strange, unexplained and savage deaths of three local fly fishermen on the Yellowstone. Who did this and how? Bouchee's investigation as he works working side by side with O'Keefe County sheriff Jim Qualls and friends of the PI in the small, high plains town courses along a trail of mayhem and planned violence that only escalates as time passes. Along the way he and his companion, a Springer spaniel known as The Dog, roam the rivers, empty prairies and mountain forests that is Bouchee's stomping grounds. Murder, psychotic behavior and dark danger follow the pair wherever they go trying to uncover the truth in this bizarre case. How all this swirls together is the essence of Blown Away Under the Big Sky, the second book in the Ed Bouchee Big Sky PI murder mystery series.

Nyah's father was a cop. He was gunned down and his murder was left unsolved. Three years later, Nyah watches helplessly as three people are slaughtered and barely escapes with her own life. Now the witnesses are being erased and sixteen-year-old Nyah is being hunted by corrupt cops, drug dealers and a ruthless sociopathic killer. Everything Nyah has ever loved has been taken from her. All she wants is someone to pay. Grady Fisk is an alcoholic whose marriage is steamrolling towards divorce and who owes $50, 000 to a drug dealer to keep his brother Reece alive. While dragging Reece out of yet another fine mess, three people are murdered, and Grady and Reece are the prime suspects. If saving his own ass wasn't tough enough, Grady now has to protect Nyah from every murderer and psychopath in the city. Is it any wonder Grady drinks? Nyah wants vengeance. Nyah needs a hero. What she gets is Grady Fisk.

A huge tiger shark caught off Sydney throws up a human leg. The only lead for the cops is a tattoo emblazoned on the ankle. When the high-roller owner of the Golden Dragon Restaurant in Chinatown recognizes the tattoo in a photo in the newspaper as belonging to his brother, he retains PI Axis Stone to privately solve the case. A second grizzly murder and Axis realizes he's caught up in a bitter Triad war over the control of Sydney's underbelly. The Triad's demand two million dollars cash plus ownership of the Golden Dragon Restaurant from his client or the sharks will get another feed. The trail leads Axis to Hong Kong for a dangerous meeting with the Dragon Head of the Triad syndicate making the demand..

Lili (Leelee) Mack and Isaac Stalin are in their forties now and hiking The Way of St. James, from France into Northwest Spain and the Camino de Santiago. Lili knows that somewhere along the way the assassin her father hired to kill Isaac will do the job. Teens when they first meet, Stalin is responsible for an accident that caused Lili to lose part of her hearing. Thirty-one years later she rediscovered Isaac Stalin on an online dating service. Believing that Stalin had damaged his daughter's chances of becoming a great musician, her dying dad has hired an assassin, a doctor who kills people for money. Will Lili go through with her father's plan and deliver Isaac Stalin to the hitman?

In a small southern Illinois town, Emily Ahrens, a rather plain, unexceptional 17-year-old girl, dies suddenly, horribly and inexplicably, at home. There appears to be no rational explanation for her death. Tests soon confirm that Emily died of kidney failure due to arsenic poisoning. Tests also confirm that she was not pregnant. A coroner's inquest, called to decide whether her death was suicide, accident, homicide, natural or undetermined concludes the death is undetermined. With no evidence of foul play, local authorities are reluctant to investigate. The girl's father, Walt Ahrens, a local car dealer, refuses to let the matter drop and begins obsessively seeking answers, even as his family begs him not to, even as the townspeople seek to put the tragedy behind them. Stonewalled, Walt hires a shady private investigator from the city to look into the circumstances of his daughter's death, but he too fails to turn up any answers, only more questions, before dumping the case back into Walt's lap. When the desperate father turns up the screws on one rather unsavory suspect, a fatal accident ensues, and circumstances begin to spiral out of control.

Badland Blues is the story of Jean Scaputo, a homeless dwarf madly in unrequited love with a local waitress, Marissa. His life of miserable poverty changes fantastically when he wins the Mega Millions Lottery. With fortune in hand, Jean experiences the kind of romantic interest from Marissa he's only dreamed about. But it's too good to be true. Unknown to Jean, Marissa is being manipulated by a savage criminal gang led by the ingenious femme fatale, Viola Davis. Her plot leads Jean into the savage underbelly of a drug ravaged oil town. When all is said and done, he may salvage romance with Marissa or find himself stripped of everything, including his pride.

When recently promoted policeman Ferdy and his colleague Matt the Stat are called out to their first murder scene, they find a dead woman on the bank of the Thames. Her eyes have been gouged out and a tarot card -- 15 the Devil - has been stuffed in her mouth. Among the onlookers is the BMX Kid, a teenager who tells Ferdy about the curious swirling globe graffiti and the satanic rituals in Brooklands Parks. Discovering that the dead woman is a sex worker, Ferdy sends a man undercover to find why none of her friends have come forward. A second murder with the same modus operandi turns Ferdy's investigation upside down, but the mysterious BMX Kid glides into the station to once again offer information.

This exciting new novel introduces Rhode Island-based private eye Stafford Boyle. But it picks up on events from Paul McGoran's earlier book, Made for Murder. For Stafford Boyle-, this case began when the wife of a TV reality show winner asked him to find out if her husband was cheating. Billy Moncton had won a million bucks on the Castaways program and his wife Theresa wasn't about to let that kind of money just walk away. This was the kind of job a small-time gumshoe thrived on, tailing a wayward husband and picking up a fast fee. But the assignment didn't go as expected. He followed Billy to the mansion of Claudia Chitworth, one of Newport's few remaining dowager queens - Dismas Cottage, scene of several long-ago murders. Next thing Boyle knows, he's dealing with a missing fiancée, a mysterious child, a suspicious scion, and more dead bodies.

Simon Sol Dorsey is a renegade private investigator with close ties to a big city police department. That's why he's asked to investigate the disappearance of the teenage daughter of a disgraced cop. The cop is married to a Ukrainian "find-a-bride," who is a major source of imported drugs, big guns, and money-laundering. When the girl's body washes up on a beach along with an international hitman's body, Dorsey finds himself in the middle of an international gangland war. He can certainly use the help of a Ukrainian State Police investigator, one who just happens to be young and vivacious. But he's making enemies fast. Question is, who will be left standing?

Rainbaux Le Blanc appears to be a hipster artist, but she is a Remote Viewer for the Defense Intelligence Directorate. While doing her job as a spy using her psychic abilities, she comes face-to-face with a demonic Entity that horrifies and frightens her. Curious, she does some research and discovers that there is an Entity that is possessing the minds of RV's driving them insane. Moreover, the Intelligence community wants to use this force to create psychic assassins. This knowledge freaks her out enough that she quits the DID and runs to Austin Texas. She buys a house, works a retail job, and stays to herself. But she can't hide forever. When she meets a handsome young policeman and tries to help him on a case, she discovers that The Demon has a cult of assassins operating in Austin. Now the Demon is coming for her and everyone she loves. With nowhere left to go, she must face her Demon. But she won't face him alone.

Dr. William Baker is a professor of American literature at Samuels University in Osgood, South Carolina, the small upstate community where he grew up. After more than twenty years of quiet living, almost everyone has forgotten how dangerous he was as a teen. His older brother Jimmy knows the rigid, reliable persona is just a front, that Billy is really "half bloodhound and half Rottweiler." Jimmy's history of incarceration has led William to describe him as "a B&E conviction waiting to happen." Their late father, Ian, spent twenty years in the army before a second career as a locksmith. When Ian's Vietnam-era service pistol turns up in a local pawnshop, Jimmy asks for William's help in finding out how it got there. William had accepted the official explanation that their father died in a one-car accident, but Jimmy is convinced Ian was murdered. The sight of the gun in the shop's display case stirs something inside William that he can't name; he isn't ready to believe Ian was murdered, but he knows something is wrong. He refuses to involve the police, determined to exact his own justice from whoever stole the gun.

Jeff Mutton walks the diplomatic beat protecting American officials in Saudi Arabia. An expert with guns, knives, grenades, and rockets, he's survived assaults and sieges, stabbings and chokeholds, car bombs, carjackings, criminal hits, and countless other enemy threats. But instinct tells Mutton the menace he now faces dwarfs all these killers combined. The fool-his foot fetish has him in hot water again! Part soft-boiled noir, part literary satire, Two Pumps for the Body Man is an unserious look at a serious situation, a grim reminder that no matter how high the barricade, how sharp the razor wire, there is no front line to the War on Terror. And the enemy is everywhere, even within.

Axis Stone has been hired by beautiful Lola Lovejoy to find her sexy lounge singer twin sister, Kitty. But this is no ordinary gig for the young PI more familiar with nickel and dime local cases for his bread and butter - this is a kidnapping of international importance in one of the crime capitals of the world: Manila in the Philippines. Having to troll sleazy girlie bars in the red light district of Manila for leads, the haunt of kidnapers, drug lords and racketeers, Axis could easily meet a shadowy death and no one would ever know it. The odds of solving the kidnapping get even higher when he discovers he's up against a bent cop on the take and his partner Ringo Raye, the biggest drug lord in South East Asia. Together they have built a crime empire that is above the law and beyond suspicion. Is he out of his depth? This is a city where life is cheap - where a couple of hundred bucks buys a hit on anyone, and where a flash of a credit card buys you anything you want. Every car has a gun under the front seat - this town after dark is not for the faint hearted. A tenacious, tough, handsome, streetwise Aussie with a lethal left hook, a sharp tongue, and an education from the pool halls of life, Axis has only one weakness to speak of: a taste for beautiful women ... and this time he finds himself in a town loaded with treats ... but he soon learns the price they come for.

Very little comes easy in the West, not even murder. Here, Ed Bouchee, a small town private detective living on the northern high plains, is asked to investigate a gruesome murder. From that moment on nothing is as it seems. Up is down and white fades to black. Bouchee and his headstrong Springer spaniel companion, The Dog, wander the slightly mean, out-of-kilter streets of Biederbeck, and the lonesome, often terrifying, mountain backroads of central Montana in search of Mark Grace's killer. Along the way eccentric Biederbeck luminaries like The Count, Dirt Tidrow, Liz and Sam Jones, Miskis, and others combine to both help and hinder the often-bewildered detective. Was Grace dispatched to protect an illegal trout netting operation? Was he killed in a squabble over a marginal timber-cutting contract? Or was the reason much darker, much crazier?