Lila wasn’t going to kill the wrong man. She had scruples. And this guy just didn’t look like Arkady Volkov. She glanced for the hundredth time at the fuzzy picture on her phone, comparing it to the man holding the arm of a very elderly woman tapping a white cane on the ground as she […]
I’d just put the kettle on when my phone pinged. A text from Hubs: Done in 5 then home. Oh, that’s sweet, I thought. Hubs being considerate. But then a string of smiley faces appeared, followed by red and purple hearts, several glasses of wine, fireworks, and, lastly, more smiley faces. I considered replying with […]
Originally Published in 2008, we are happy to bring Janeology by Karen Harrington back to print. A well crafted legal thriller which broaches to the questions of Nurture vs. Nature. What to Expect inside… Jane Nelson is a loving mother of two who has drowned her toddler son and is charged with his murder in […]
“This had better be damn good!” My eyes felt like burning coals in my skull. It was due to the case of Fireball I had sucked down last night. Possum had always been the dramatic type, and now he was going on and on about some plane that had crashed up on the mountain near […]
“For me, the action IS the juice.” One of the rerun movie channels was airing Heat, the Pacino/De Niro heist flick from the 90s, although this was the first time she had seen it. That pretty much sums it up, she thought. It wasn’t about the money, she knew she was set to live comfortably […]
Check the gun. That’s the ritual. Check the magazine. Insert it back in. Pull the slide and check the chamber. Check the clock. 8:27. The night before I’m in the basement cleaning the gun again. All this work and after the job’s done the gun will be nothing but a puddle of molten slag, melted […]
Last Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. they hit. Hard. Thirty blew in through the main entrance doors. They wore hoodies and masks. Men and women of all shapes and sizes—tall, fat, black, white—you name it. They spread through the aisles like a virus, grabbing everything in sight: clothing, purses, shoes, makeup. High-end merch, but also anything […]
We are please to announce the release of the debut novel DOE RUN by Sean Jacques. What to Expect inside… Deer hunting season starts in three days, and nearly everyone in the Ozarks is preparing to gun down a big buck. But in the backwoods town of Doe Run, Missouri, wild game won’t be the […]
Flannery O’Connor once said, “I write to discover what I am doing” (O’Connor, 1988). This is art. In No Man is an Island, Thomas Merton wrote, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the intellectual and spiritual values that lie hidden in a poem, […]
Judy stood at the bay window with an old mystery novel she’d checked out from the library, watching as her husband Frank eased the Buick up the gravel driveway. The car radio was blaring a country ballad from the 1980s, one she couldn’t put a finger on. She couldn’t remember things like song titles anymore, […]
He said his name was Danny, but he sure didn’t look like a Danny. Trust me, I can tell when men lie. He took cash from my purse the first night I slept with him. I confronted him the next day, but he acted like I was crazy. Now that all my credit cards are […]
“So,” said Detective Ringnes, “he hired you and made his wife watch?” Diana could think of things she’d rather do than sit across from him in this barely furnished interview room, but at least he was treating her as a witness. To a lot of cops she was a suspect no matter what. “He didn’t […]
