Evil and illness are intertwined in this third Carrick crime anthology.Our 35 authors each take a stab at answering the question: What happens when murder seems like the best cure for what ails you?Join us for this pandemic publication and find out how we spent our COVID-19 isolation.Authors:Catherine AstolfoRosemary AubertJayne BarnardThom BennettSusan BowmanJane Petersen BurfieldLinda CahillM.H. Callway...

Finalist for the 2015 Arthur Ellis Best Short Story Award! "Writer's Block", by Kevin Thornton.Finalist for the 2015 Derringer Short Fiction Mystery Society Award! "The Ultimate Mystery", by M.H. Callway.From the dangerous streets of Johannesburg to the hallowed halls of Toronto's academia, from the raging swell of the English Channel, to the white sands of Canada's Atlantic playground, crime is indeed a global affair.Crime…Noun, Michael C. SlaterDoctor Shedia...

What happens when an old flame is bludgeoned in an obscure prairie village? Or when a new love threatens a young family in Ontario's isolated cottage-country?Donna Carrick is the author of The First Excellence (winner of the 2011 Indie Book Event Award), Gold And Fishes and The Noon God, as well as several short story collections. Her story "Watermelon Weekend", featured in Thirteen (Carrick Publishing), was shortlisted for the prestigious Arthur Ellis Award, 2014. Carrick's novels...

Carrick Publishing presents: EFD1: Starship Goodwords, the first in our series of cross-genre anthologies featuring a diverse selection of stories and poems.Compiled and edited by Donna and Alex Carrick, this collection includes: Mystery, Crime, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Literary, Paranormal, Science Fiction and Humor.There's something for every reader in this exceptional sampling of today's authors.Contributors by Genre:Foreword, Donna CarrickCrime Fict...

By the award-winning author of The First Excellence.On December 26, 2004 at 6:58 am the earth erupted under the waters of the Indian Ocean...For Aid worker Ayla Harris, her first overseas mission to post-tsunami Indonesia presents the perfect opportunity for escape. A failed romance with a married man and a strained relationship with her twin sister have left her suffering from a general sense of 'detachment'.But a late night call on the eve of her departure reminds...

Winner of the 2011 Indie Book Event Award for excellence in fiction.What happens when East bleeds into West? Join Fa-ling on an incredible journey into the heart of mainland China. Searching for her lost heritage, Fa-ling encounters murder, kidnapping, political intrigue and organ theft. With Detective Wang Yong-qi and his brilliant but uncouth partner Cheng Minsheng, Fa-ling must uncover a high-stakes kidnapping plot – before another child goes missing!Donna Carrick is the...

By the award-winning author of The First Excellence.A selection of 5 haunting stories by Donna Carrick -- Volume 1 of the Toboggan Mysteries series. Each compelling tale features a Northern locale, with characters and settings that will seem familiar to many readers.Stories include: North On The Yellowhead, Dancing With Carole, Invasion, The Night She Died, Spring's Last Skate.Previous full-length novels by Donna Carrick: The First Excellence ~ Fa-ling's Map, Gold A...

By the award-winning author of The First Excellence.Living in the shadow of greatness can be a difficult thing.Just ask Desdemona Fortune. When her father, the magnificent J. Caesar Fortune, is found murdered inside the offices of the Faculty of Art, there is no shortage of people who carried a grudge against him.From the lover who could not capture his affection to the colleagues whose efforts were repeatedly ignored, many resented the immensity of his literary suc...

PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS.SOME PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETSA LITTLE TOO MUCH.Who could blame Mr. Whiskers for trying to high-dive from a penthouse window or Fluffy for crawling into a washing machine? After being dressed up for Halloween, married off in elaborate weddings, toted everywhere in baby backpacks, or just plain coddled within an inch of their sanity by obsessively doting owners, these pets are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or worse. They’d call the suicide h...

Called "one of our brightest cultural commentators" by Publishers Weekly, Kit Reed draws from life--with a difference. This new collection brings together thirty-four of her strong, original stories, from early classics like "The Wait" and "Winter" to six never-before-collected short stories, including "The Legend of Troop 13" and "Wherein We Enter the Museum." An early favorite, "Automatic Tiger," is the first in a series of Reed's stories about animals. There's a monkey who grinds out be...

#3 in the Women of Strength DiariesAfter the death of her father, Dana Morrison noticed that her mother’s house was becoming cluttered. First she saved grocery bags, then newspapers, and empty boxes. In no time flat, her house was filled with junk, junk, and more junk! Dana made the mistake of cleaning house, but that just made matters worse when her mother decided that her trash was more valuable to her than her daughter.Tonya Thomas writes gripping storie...

Chicken Soup for the Soul’s first-ever humor collection, and the timing is perfect. This is storytelling at its funniest.If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is your prescription. Turn off the news and spend a few days not following current events. Instead, return to the basics—humanity’s ability to laugh at itself.Maybe you should even do a news cleanse for a few days! Hide under the covers and read these stories instead. Or read a chapter a da...