Picking up where Poachers and Pills, and A Good Man Goes South left off, JD Clapp is back with another collection of short stories that kick like a mule. The stories in Alternations shed light on the darkest corners of the human experience. Clapp's characters struggle with poverty, addiction, and loneliness while searching for meaning, solace, and grace. True to the spirit of American realism, some occasionally beat the odds.

Twenty-five high-octane stories from the hottest thriller authors in one anthology, edited by #1 New York Times –bestselling author Lee Child.Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present an anthology of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before published, storie...

Selected by Nelson DeMille, a collection of mystery/thriller short stories focused on the wealthy upper echelons from some of today's top writers.The truly wealthy live in another world. From their multi-national businesses to their palatial mansions to their exotic vacations at glamorous places all around the world, they do everything in a big way. And sometimes, that even includes crime. In this anthology, you'll read about a wealthy writer who plots murder his ho...

In this psychological thriller following Die Smiling, an apparent suicide draws a detective toward a demented killer who likes to play games.His doctors are the best in the world, his father one of the most powerful men in the state. But they couldn’t stop Mikey from succumbing to his darkest demons—the ones inside his head. The ones who told him it was time to end it all . . .It should have been an open-and-shut case, especially since detective Cl...

BECAUSE HOMICIDEBEGINS AT HOMEEven the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one -- by expecting trouble.What he didn't expect was ever running i...

2023 Reader Views Literary Awards—Gold (Memoir), Silver (Overall Nonfiction) Spinning on a BarstoolSpun Off a Barstool seriesBook 1—Spinning on a BarstoolContinue the story in Book 2—SPUN—It didn't end with Book 1.________________________________The barstool.The pew of the working class.Warden of wishes. Steward of secrets.Custodian. Keeper. Protector.On it, the ordinary sit.Occasionally ... the extraordinar...

***An Anthony Award 2023 Finalist*The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more.**Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are somewhere else and yearn to go b...

An American Demon is Jack Grishams story of depravity and redemption terror and spiritual deliverance. While Grisham is best known as the raucous and provocative front man of the pioneer hardcore punk band TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty) his writing and true life experiences are physically and psychologically more complex unsettling and violent than those of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk. Eloquently disregarding the prefabricated formulas of the drunk–to–sober bad–to–good tale this i...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION"In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era, while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential." - Jenny Offill, author of Department of Speculation and WeatherA luminous debut novel in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the eerily intersecting lives of a series of ...

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge),' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and Joe R. Lansdale's 'The Skull Collector,' a gangster yarn featuring gun-toting female grave robbers. Overshadowing everything, though, is Lee Goldberg's 'Lost Shows,' a delightful shocker about a fanatical collector of short-lived and unaired TV shows who has t...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Day My Butt Went Psycho!, comes a collection of ten slimy, rhymey, easy-to-read Dr. Seuss-style short stories.Muck! Uck! Yuck!It is just bad luckWhen the truck of a duckGets stuck in the muck?Wacky rhymes that won't bore!All of this and so much more;What are you waiting for?With silly rhymes, sound effects, and hilarious art on every page,...

The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition—original tales with a humorous bent! Included in the new collection are works by:Donna AndrewsMarcia TalleyGigi PandianWilliam AdeGregory MeeceNikki KnightM.S. GreeneBecky ClarkBrian CoxMelinda MulletNina MansfieldSylvia Maultash WarshSuzanne FlaigDonna ClancySusan Love Brown