Three stories about detectives trying to make sense of their lives long after their lives have lost all meaning.

Safe.Finally safe. Away from the avenging family of the brutal assailant she had accidentally killed. Safe, but for how long?Safe in Brazil, a country she knows nothing about. Safe where she can't even speak the language. Safe in a quickie marriage to a man she also knows nothing about. Safe in a marriage based on lust rather than love.Safe in an aristocratic family dedicated to ending her marriage quickly. Safe in a family with the means to find out about her past....

Three stories about visiting the underworld. Somtimes the visit is forever.

Imagine paying a fine for walking across town. Or hiding an illegal marriage. Or losing your life for playing the harp. Strange crimes, dangerous activities, some from the not-so-distant past, return to life in Hidden in Crime. See why Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine says Fiction River’s crime volumes have “high quality throughout,” and why Publishers Weekly states “… fans of the unconventional will be well satisfied.” Join some of the best authors in the business ...

Three noir mystery stories about justice gone sideways.The Koreli: In Turkey the gypsy can provide whatever is wanted. Even if it isn't needed.Barbie's Boys: The pretty boys gave her whatever she wanted. Eventually she wanted death.Burning Water: You can't run from your problems. At some point you start running towards them.

Amid the exotic sights, sounds and smells of mysterious Turkey, a young woman must bring order out of chaos. Two murders, an attack on her life and the abduction of her niece create a challenge.A Turkish detective—a koreli—must solve the two murders. His superiors don’t want them solved. They want him to stop a revolution all by himself.A retired general plots to overthrow the government. A young gypsy girl dances for the general and learns too much to be allowed to live.

The old becomes new again as fifteen talented authors go back to the lurid pulp titles of yesteryear through today’s rich, nuanced storytelling. Enjoy original tales featuring rebel angels fighting a heavenly enforcement squad, a cop whose life might depend on ordering the right deli sandwich, and a wizard who has just three days to pay off the loan on his tower or lose his very soul. Whatever your taste in stories, Recycled Pulp is sure to have something that will amaze, surprise...

Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything to go after some really big rats. Crossing genre lines through science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical, and mainstream, these adrenaline-pumping stories about taking risks offer nothing but ...

From fairy tales fractured into unrecognizability to Russian mobsters hanging out with zombies, from New World slavery to modern Alaskan cruise ships, the stories in Fantasy Adrift sail across the genre. Two writers make their fiction debuts next to bestsellers Steve Perry and Dean Wesley Smith to take readers on a journey of the imagination—as only Fiction River can do.Includes stories by Irette Y. Patterson, Leslie Claire Walker, Eric Stocklassa, Rebecca S.W. Bates, Kara Legend, ...

THIRTEEN TALES. THIRTEEN JOURNEYS.On a dusty desert road, a man offers the devil a deal. In the confines of a lab, a young woman faces her demons in virtual reality. Two interplanetary art dealers get more than they bargained for when hired guns try to stop them from selling a valuable piece. When a monster comes to town, a man must fight it by unleashing the monster under his own skin.In thirteen short stories, the authors of the Northwest Independent Writers Association e...

Fantastic detectives come in many forms, from dogs to elves to eggs. (Yes, eggs.) And fantastic detective stories come in all mystery subgenres, from cozy to hard-boiled. (Remember. Eggs.) All of these forms and subgenres combine to create one of the most delightful additions to the Fiction River anthology series. With stories featuring New York Times bestseller Kevin J. Anderson’s popular zombie detective Dan Shamble and USA Today bestseller Dean Wesley Smith’s most beloved character, Pok...

Between the earth and the sky, between the past and the present, between the musical notes and the silence exist universes. Millions of them. The eighth volume of Fiction River presents fourteen universes, all different, all powerful. From a planetary survey ship moored in an alien ocean to a comic book convention near a strange Louisiana town, each of these universes go somewhere familiar and strange at the same time. Come visit the universe of Fiction River, which Amazing Stories called ...