Author: Duane Swierczynski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976715757
Category : Mystery and detective stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“Some [of the stories] are hilarious; many are sad; all are the kind of stuff that makes Miss Marple look like a Girl Scout.”—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune An original anthology. A collection of twenty-seven original “geezer noir” stories by some of today’s top crime writers, including John Harvey, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Colin Cotterill, and more. Bill Crider’s “Cranked” was nominated for the Edgar and Anthony awards and won the Derringer Award. Megan Abbott’s “Policy” was nominated for the Anthony Award and became the basis for her novel Queenpin, which won the 2008 Edgar Award.
Damn Near Dead
Author: Duane Swierczynski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976715757
Category : Mystery and detective stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“Some [of the stories] are hilarious; many are sad; all are the kind of stuff that makes Miss Marple look like a Girl Scout.”—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune An original anthology. A collection of twenty-seven original “geezer noir” stories by some of today’s top crime writers, including John Harvey, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Colin Cotterill, and more. Bill Crider’s “Cranked” was nominated for the Edgar and Anthony awards and won the Derringer Award. Megan Abbott’s “Policy” was nominated for the Anthony Award and became the basis for her novel Queenpin, which won the 2008 Edgar Award.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976715757
Category : Mystery and detective stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“Some [of the stories] are hilarious; many are sad; all are the kind of stuff that makes Miss Marple look like a Girl Scout.”—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune An original anthology. A collection of twenty-seven original “geezer noir” stories by some of today’s top crime writers, including John Harvey, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Colin Cotterill, and more. Bill Crider’s “Cranked” was nominated for the Edgar and Anthony awards and won the Derringer Award. Megan Abbott’s “Policy” was nominated for the Anthony Award and became the basis for her novel Queenpin, which won the 2008 Edgar Award.
Dead and Buried
Author: Annie Anderson
Publisher: Annie Anderson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Darby Adler is done. Done with the Council. Done with ancient evils popping up every five seconds. And especially done with her ex-boyfriend, Bishop. On the hunt for the slippery mage, she has teamed up with an unlikely ally in a Prince of Hell. The same prince that invades her thoughts, her space, and maybe her heart. But when the dreaded ex starts targeting those closest to Darby, all deals–demon or otherwise–are off. Darby’s going to bury Bishop La Roux… one way or another.
Publisher: Annie Anderson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Darby Adler is done. Done with the Council. Done with ancient evils popping up every five seconds. And especially done with her ex-boyfriend, Bishop. On the hunt for the slippery mage, she has teamed up with an unlikely ally in a Prince of Hell. The same prince that invades her thoughts, her space, and maybe her heart. But when the dreaded ex starts targeting those closest to Darby, all deals–demon or otherwise–are off. Darby’s going to bury Bishop La Roux… one way or another.
Damn Near Dead 2
Author: Ace Atkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935415404
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated original "geezer noir" crime anthology Damn Near Dead.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935415404
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated original "geezer noir" crime anthology Damn Near Dead.
Slide
Author: Jason Starr
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 0857683918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
WARNING! THIS MAY BE THE MOST SHOCKING BOOK YOU EVER READ! Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer and Angela’s back in Ireland, hooking up with a would-be record-setter…in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again? What do you think? From the evil geniuses who brought you Bust comes a roller-coaster ride of suspense, mayhem and vicious fun that’ll make you reluctant ever to open your mail again. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 0857683918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
WARNING! THIS MAY BE THE MOST SHOCKING BOOK YOU EVER READ! Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer and Angela’s back in Ireland, hooking up with a would-be record-setter…in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again? What do you think? From the evil geniuses who brought you Bust comes a roller-coaster ride of suspense, mayhem and vicious fun that’ll make you reluctant ever to open your mail again. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
The Chaneysville Incident
Author: David Bradley
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480438529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner: “Rivals Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison’s Invisible Man” (The Christian Science Monitor). Brilliant but troubled historian John Washington has left Philadelphia, where he is employed by a major university, to return to his hometown just north of the Mason–Dixon Line. He is there to care for Old Jack, one of the men who helped raise him when he was growing up on the Hill, an old black neighborhood in the little Pennsylvania town—but he also wants to learn more about the death of his father. What John discovers is that his father, Moses Washington, left behind extensive notes on a mystery he was researching: why thirteen escaped slaves reached freedom in Chaneysville only to die there, for reasons forgotten or never known at all. Based on meticulous historical research, The Chaneysville Incident explores the power of our pasts, and paints a vivid portrait of realities such as the Underground Railroad’s activity in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and the phenomenon of enslaved people committing suicide to escape their fate. This extraordinary novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, was described by the Los Angeles Times as “perhaps the most significant work by a new black male author since James Baldwin dazzled in the early ’60s with his fine fury,” and placed David Bradley in the front ranks of contemporary American authors.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480438529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner: “Rivals Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison’s Invisible Man” (The Christian Science Monitor). Brilliant but troubled historian John Washington has left Philadelphia, where he is employed by a major university, to return to his hometown just north of the Mason–Dixon Line. He is there to care for Old Jack, one of the men who helped raise him when he was growing up on the Hill, an old black neighborhood in the little Pennsylvania town—but he also wants to learn more about the death of his father. What John discovers is that his father, Moses Washington, left behind extensive notes on a mystery he was researching: why thirteen escaped slaves reached freedom in Chaneysville only to die there, for reasons forgotten or never known at all. Based on meticulous historical research, The Chaneysville Incident explores the power of our pasts, and paints a vivid portrait of realities such as the Underground Railroad’s activity in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and the phenomenon of enslaved people committing suicide to escape their fate. This extraordinary novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, was described by the Los Angeles Times as “perhaps the most significant work by a new black male author since James Baldwin dazzled in the early ’60s with his fine fury,” and placed David Bradley in the front ranks of contemporary American authors.
Mccreed's Law
Author: Larry J. Martin
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786030895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Worth Its Weight In Blood Gone: a shipment of gold and a handful of passengers from the Trans Continental Railroad. Found: one man who has the skill, motivation and courage to track down the mad dog outlaws who hit the train. Now, the U.S. Army and detective Morris Flannigan have invited the devil to join their detail--bringing lawless Kane McCreed into the hunt for a band of savage criminals. What no one can guess is just how good a job Kane McCreed intends to do. Because he knows the outlaws who robbed the train and where they're hiding. With a score to settle and a woman in the mix, McCreed plans on laying down his own kind of law--or dying for the one brand of justice he can understand... McCreed's Law
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786030895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Worth Its Weight In Blood Gone: a shipment of gold and a handful of passengers from the Trans Continental Railroad. Found: one man who has the skill, motivation and courage to track down the mad dog outlaws who hit the train. Now, the U.S. Army and detective Morris Flannigan have invited the devil to join their detail--bringing lawless Kane McCreed into the hunt for a band of savage criminals. What no one can guess is just how good a job Kane McCreed intends to do. Because he knows the outlaws who robbed the train and where they're hiding. With a score to settle and a woman in the mix, McCreed plans on laying down his own kind of law--or dying for the one brand of justice he can understand... McCreed's Law
If I Should Die Tonight
Author: Eyes . . . Jb
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479716936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
At age twelve, Lucinda is the mother of a one-year-old half white/black baby after being brutally raped. After Ray Shawn is born; he constantly hears and sees sights and sounds of racism, hatred and insults directed at him and his mother. When their lives are threatened and all hell breaks loose because three "good ole boys" are about to stand trial for attacking Lucinda; baby girls only option is to take little Ray, and jet from the warm conditions of their small hometown to avoid the murderous claws of a mob made up of a few of Alabama's most racists. She must also avoid the blood dripping branches of Jim Crow's "hang a nigger" tree. Ten years later in a housing project near Boston, Lucinda is murdered and little Ray becomes a hustler at age fifteen at the height of the AIDS epidemic. As he watches his boys being taken out by the disease, he realizes that he's about to become a statistic also, but he develops a desire while in prison to eventually tell their stories. After becoming a follower of Louis Farrakhan while doing an eight year stretch, he no longer carries within him the hate and revenge that had overtaken his mind, body and soul for whites. And his desire to take out white men and continue to hustled white women as revenge for his mother's death had all but vanished by the time he's released He's now on a mission to clean up his community and save his young brothers and sisters, and to keep them from following in his path as a street hustler whose only mission was to degrade women and destroy their integrity.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479716936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
At age twelve, Lucinda is the mother of a one-year-old half white/black baby after being brutally raped. After Ray Shawn is born; he constantly hears and sees sights and sounds of racism, hatred and insults directed at him and his mother. When their lives are threatened and all hell breaks loose because three "good ole boys" are about to stand trial for attacking Lucinda; baby girls only option is to take little Ray, and jet from the warm conditions of their small hometown to avoid the murderous claws of a mob made up of a few of Alabama's most racists. She must also avoid the blood dripping branches of Jim Crow's "hang a nigger" tree. Ten years later in a housing project near Boston, Lucinda is murdered and little Ray becomes a hustler at age fifteen at the height of the AIDS epidemic. As he watches his boys being taken out by the disease, he realizes that he's about to become a statistic also, but he develops a desire while in prison to eventually tell their stories. After becoming a follower of Louis Farrakhan while doing an eight year stretch, he no longer carries within him the hate and revenge that had overtaken his mind, body and soul for whites. And his desire to take out white men and continue to hustled white women as revenge for his mother's death had all but vanished by the time he's released He's now on a mission to clean up his community and save his young brothers and sisters, and to keep them from following in his path as a street hustler whose only mission was to degrade women and destroy their integrity.
Trust No Man
Author: CASH
Publisher: WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS
ISBN: 1936649772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
TRUST NO MAN is an urban street tale told in such vivid detail and with such gritty and compelling style it's like watching a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Terrence aka Youngblood is a young and jiggy stick-up kid in ATL with strict street principles respect for the code of his game, loyalty to those who are loyal to him, and much baby mama drama. Shan, Youngblood s cocaine sniffin baby mama, violates him when she hooks up with one of his partnaz while Youngblood is serving a bid. When Youngblood touches down, it s on and poppin . Rich kid, a flamboyant drug kingpin wants to put Youngblood on his team, but Youngblood prefers to get his the fast way the ski mask way. When Youngblood hits a big lick, he finds out that more money means more problems. Who can he trust? The answer will leave you speechless. TRUST NO MAN is a story of murder, sex, money, bling, love, and betrayal. Get ready to have your every emotion touched. TRUST NO MAN will do that!
Publisher: WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS
ISBN: 1936649772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
TRUST NO MAN is an urban street tale told in such vivid detail and with such gritty and compelling style it's like watching a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Terrence aka Youngblood is a young and jiggy stick-up kid in ATL with strict street principles respect for the code of his game, loyalty to those who are loyal to him, and much baby mama drama. Shan, Youngblood s cocaine sniffin baby mama, violates him when she hooks up with one of his partnaz while Youngblood is serving a bid. When Youngblood touches down, it s on and poppin . Rich kid, a flamboyant drug kingpin wants to put Youngblood on his team, but Youngblood prefers to get his the fast way the ski mask way. When Youngblood hits a big lick, he finds out that more money means more problems. Who can he trust? The answer will leave you speechless. TRUST NO MAN is a story of murder, sex, money, bling, love, and betrayal. Get ready to have your every emotion touched. TRUST NO MAN will do that!
Darque Reflections
Author: the Saber
Publisher: Saber-Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The college town of Haberville* is in the grip of terror from a series of brutal murders that leave the victims skinned alive and then desecrated before they are finally murdered. The police are stumped as they run into dead ends or looking at answers that can not be possibly true! Kelly Darque is unaware that he is the ultimate target for the murderer. And not only him, but also the woman he loves most in the world. But Kelly and the police are about to run right into the murder's web, to face horrors of a supernatural nature that would have been better left in hell. (*Haberville is a fictional town)
Publisher: Saber-Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The college town of Haberville* is in the grip of terror from a series of brutal murders that leave the victims skinned alive and then desecrated before they are finally murdered. The police are stumped as they run into dead ends or looking at answers that can not be possibly true! Kelly Darque is unaware that he is the ultimate target for the murderer. And not only him, but also the woman he loves most in the world. But Kelly and the police are about to run right into the murder's web, to face horrors of a supernatural nature that would have been better left in hell. (*Haberville is a fictional town)
Transformation of a Nerd
Author: Aetius D. Harris
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491739029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Growing up in Chicago's South Side was not easy for author Aetius D. Harris, who went by Columbus George, or Colo, in the story, Poke Dog in his youth. Born in 1968, he chronicles his struggles to fit in among his peers and stay on a righteous path. In his memoir, Harris details tales of his childhood and his experience's with the criminal life. He also recalls the spiritual fight that ensued for his soul. He is focusing on a period in his life from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. In that time, his god-fearing mother did her best with raising him. That being; he still found himself drawn toward the Black Disciple's organization's love, structure & protection, in that order This autobiography explores his progression from child to young adult. A journey driven by a will to survive, succeed and achieve goals. His obstacles are his skin color and his intellect. He uses his wits to maneuver the South side of Chicago's wickedness
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491739029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Growing up in Chicago's South Side was not easy for author Aetius D. Harris, who went by Columbus George, or Colo, in the story, Poke Dog in his youth. Born in 1968, he chronicles his struggles to fit in among his peers and stay on a righteous path. In his memoir, Harris details tales of his childhood and his experience's with the criminal life. He also recalls the spiritual fight that ensued for his soul. He is focusing on a period in his life from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. In that time, his god-fearing mother did her best with raising him. That being; he still found himself drawn toward the Black Disciple's organization's love, structure & protection, in that order This autobiography explores his progression from child to young adult. A journey driven by a will to survive, succeed and achieve goals. His obstacles are his skin color and his intellect. He uses his wits to maneuver the South side of Chicago's wickedness