Noir Detective Short

THE THRILLER AND SHAMUS AWARD WINNING SERIES! When PI Dick Moonlight agrees to serve as the designated post-operative procedure driver for his sometime sidekick, Roland Hills, aka, Fat Elvis, little does he know that what awaits him inside the Albany Surgical Center is one of the most dangerous and bizarre hostage situations possible. Not only does a stunningly beautiful female inmate who's been transferred to the facility for a small operation shoot her law enforcement captors in cold blood, she or he as it turns out, won't agree to release any hostages until the doctors agree to give her ...

DON'T MESS WITH BINGO NIGHT!!!! When two losers working for a floral supply outfit get it into their heads that they can rob the creepy old home for the elderly which is located directly across the street from their place of employment on Bingo Night, it sounds like an easy score. Too easy. Because what they don't realize is that just because people are old, doesn't mean they still don't have some fight left in them. In fact, in the case of Bingo Night, these elderly people have more than fight in them. They are barbarians. Originally published in Pulp Metal Magazine in two parts, Bingo ...

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU PLAY A PRACTICAL JOKE ON. IT COULD COST YOU YOUR LIFE. When a drunken man named Chuck (aka Chuckles) decides to play a joke on his barfly buddy, Timmy (aka Buddha), by drawing a rather accurate rendering of the male anatomy on Buddha's dusty black BMW, all hell breaks loose. You see, it only takes a couple of minutes for Chuckles to realize he's created the stunning artwork on the wrong car. In fact, the car belongs to an underworld executioner known only as Rod Last Name Not Known. What follows is Chuckles and his buddy, Jones, being kidnapped by Rod and made to endure ...

As his 18th birthday approaches, the only thing that Xander Stryker wishes for is death. Yet, he wakes up each morning, forced to go on living and remembering the image of his stepfather murdering his mother. Instead of dying, he is thrown into a supernatural world and offered a choice: Continue his sorry life or start anew. For Xander, the choice is obvious. In the new world, life is just as unforgiving. Horrors from his past lurk from the shadows. As they fuel a fresh legacy, Xander has to stand tall and show old monsters a stronger, better version of himself.

Di aspetto poco appariscente ma dotato di un acume straordinario, Padre Brown è di nuovo all'opera in un appassionante lavoro di analisi e decifrazione di crimini ed enigmi in apparenza insolubili, con le sue ironiche e talvolta assurde confutazioni, rigoroso e lucido nell'osservazione e nelle deduzioni e nel contempo profondamente umano. Personaggio molto amato anche in Italia, questo curioso prete cattolico si rivela un segugio insuperabile grazie alla capacità di riconoscere e affrontare il male, per assicurare i colpevoli alla giustizia ma soprattutto per salvarne le anime.

When Elmore Leonard died in 2013, he left behind a 60-year legacy of crime novels that, through their trademark wit and grit, transcended genre fiction. He also left behind a treasure trove of unpublished early stories. Their razor-sharp dialogue and headlong pacing reveal a master who honed his craft from a young age.

San Francisco 1947: Es kommt nicht jeden Tag vor, dass eine rätselhafte, anmutige Blondine namens Stilton (ja, wie der Käse) in den verlotterten Laden kommt, in dem Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin Gin ausschenkt. Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Aber bevor Sammy den ersten Schritt machen kann, betritt ein Air Force General mit einem eiligen Auftrag für ihn den Saloon. Doch Sammy hat eigentlich besseres zu tun: Er arbeitet an einer eigenen Geschäftsidee. Als aber an der Pazifikküste ein unbekanntes Flugobjekt gesichtet wird und Stilton plötzlich spurlos verschwindet, muss er sich seinen dunkelsten Geheimnissen stellen, um seinen Käse zu retten.