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Road Gig: A Novella by Trey R. Barker has just been released | Be A Character Contest

Kinney Fahey has been on the job for six months. He’s not focusing his efforts on the paperwork and it’s gonna bite him…real bad. ROAD GIG is a tight, well-written 19,000 word novella by a great new voice in crime fiction. A short story called BLOOD EVIDENCE, which is a Barefield story, along with an [...]

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The 4th Wil Hardesty Mystery is now available as an eBook!

Blackheart Highway By Richard Barre With The Innocents, Bearing Secrets and The Ghosts of Morning, Richard Barre has emerged as “one of the best hard-boiled detective novelists of the ‘90s” (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review). Now, with Blackheart Highway, he takes the genre for the ride of its life. Southern California P.I. Wil Hardesty is [...]

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Just Released: Bill Moody’s Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz

The newest book from Bill Moody is now available for purchase as a Trade Paperback and all eBook formats. Following is a brief synopsis: The year is 1968. The liberal reforms of Czechoslovakia’s new leader, Alexander Dubcek, have outraged the Kremlin and now, 250,000 Warsaw Pact forces are amassed on the borders. For American intelligence, [...]

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Milton T. Burton’s Bibliography

As many of you know, I was a big fan of Milton’s work. I am proud to say Down & Out Books published his short story collection called Texas Noir. Crimespree Magazine #46 includes a piece written by Scott Montgomery about Milton. It is ‘mighty fine’. The following is a list of his books and [...]

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The Devil and the Diva — Print Edition

The Devil and the Diva by David Housewright and Renée Valois is Down & Out Books first print edition. It is now available for purchase at createspace. The trade paperback will soon be available from independent bookstores as well as Amazon.

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Coming Soon: Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes

On March 20, 2012 Down & Out Books will release Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes. It’s an all-original anthology edited by Chester Himes award winner Gary Phillips. The anthology includes fourteen new tales from SJ Rozan, David Corbett, Reed Farrel Coleman, Brendan DuBois, Kelli Stanley, Tyler Dilts, Travis Richardson, Eric Stone, Bob [...]

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Interrogations by Jon Jordan

Mystery addict and Anthony Award winning Crimespree Magazine editor Jon Jordan interviews 25 authors in the mystery genre. This is a great peek into the minds of some of the biggest names in mysteries (and some you may not have heard of, but should have). Interviewee’s are: Colin Bateman, Loren D. Estleman, Warren Murphy, Mark [...]

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Lono Waiwaiole’s Dark Paradise

Buddy Kai and Dominic Rosario are enterprising native Hawaiian businessmen–competitors, actually–preparing to fight for control of the methamphetamine trade on the Big Island of Hawaii, where the population is small in relation to Oahu with it megapolis of Honolulu, but where the appetite for “ice”–as crystal meth is known in the local parlance–seems to both [...]

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The third Wil Hardesty mystery, The Ghosts of Morning, available as an eBook

In his Shamus Award winning first novel, The Innocents, Richard Barre introduced audiences to Wil Hardesty, “a person trying hard to survive a few of life’s dirtier tricks” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). He’s a private eye with a deep, dark past–and an uncertain future. In The Ghosts of Morning, Barre plunges even further into Wil’s history, [...]

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2,000 Miles to Open Road by Trey R. Barker

With a murder indictment hanging over his head, an angry cop on his tail, and an unknown woman who just dove through his car window during a shootout at the Carson City sewage plant, Halford Turnbull has just one goal: To prove his innocence. Not to the prosecutors, not to the cops. To his brother. [...]

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