He found himself at war with the modern world—and the laws of God and Man.When a rural misfit from a harsh, blue-collar world marries an idealistic college girl, the chances for domestic bliss are close to nil.Because marriage isn't what it used to be, and neither is higher education.But nobody explained any of this to Kevin Chapman, and now it's too late. His reality just crashed down around him, and when the dust settles, he's in the aftermath of ...

Outlaw Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Waylon JenningsAs he observed the commercialized and soulless country music scene, Waylon Jennings famously sang, "Where do we take it from here?" He answered that question by leaving Nashville and heading home to Texas, to help create what came to be known as outlaw country.Today, looking at the crime fiction world, we find ourselves asking the same question. The grittiest, harshest, most disturbing fiction ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton (1940-2017) entered the mystery field in 1982 with the publication of 'A' Is for Alibi, which introduced female hard-boiled private investigator, Kinsey Millhone, operating out of the fictional town of Santa Teresa, (aka Santa Barbara) California, and launched the bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries. In addition to her books, she’d published several Kinsey Millhone short stories, and with her hus...

BOOK TWO of the Cal Corwin, Private Eye, mystery-thriller-suspense Series"VanDyke has done it again! He's a master craftsman, offering another great read, a captivating story. Lots of mystery and action as Cal tries to find a killer - or two - before anyone else gets caught up in the webs of deceit in a California seemingly idyllic small town." - Marcia K"This author has rapidly become one of my favorites with this Cal Corw...

From the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club comes the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.Getting shot in the chest as a rookie agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 mph, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols—these are just a few of the high-adrenaline exp...

Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse!Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker...

'WOW! Great read, great characters and storyline. This book kept me up all night until I finished it' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This one is truly a THRILLER! This book does not disappoint!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐When Barbara Jean Marx is found dead, having been buried alive deep in the forest, the close-knit community in Lumpkin County is shaken.To journalist Nikki Gillette, this disturbing ...

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —Oprah Daily“A book that has stayed with me ever si...

Crooked high-powered lawyer Alton Carver has a plan: stage his own death, take the money he embezzled and light out for Central America, leaving behind wife Nicole and daughter Clara. But when he sticks around town to watch his own funeral, he discovers the life he's leaving behind isn't the life he thought he had.When he sees Nicole in the arms of another man, Alton postpones his run for the border and is forced to reconsider his self-image as a respected and admired pill...

For the first time in for ever, Jayné Heller's life is making sense. Even if she routinely risks her life to destroy demonic parasites that prey on mortals, she now has friends, colleagues, a trusted lover and new-found confidence in the mission she inherited from her wealthy, mysterious uncle. Her next job might just rob her of all of them.At Grace Memorial Hospital in Chicago, something is stirring. Patients are going AWOL and research subjects share the same sinister dreams. Hal...

To play the 'Game of Tongues', you must first understand the caste system. Phineas Poe, antihero of 'Kiss Me, Judas', returns to Denver to find reality rewritten and the laws of reason fractured. When Poe is enlisted by his old ally, Detective Moon, to find a missing cop named Jimmy Sky, he is drawn into the 'Game of Tongues', a violent fantasy game played out by disaffected college drones, hacker kids, and Goth refugees in underground punk clubs, on rooftops, and in sewers. Everyone he meets...