Angel Colón - No Happy Endings

Lost

By Eric Beetner (editor)

Unloaded

By G. J. Brown

Falling

By Rob Brunet

Stinking Rich

By Milton T. Burton

Texas Noir

By Dana Cameron (editor)

Murder at the Beach: Bouchercon Anthology 2014

By Eric Campbell (editor)

Down, Out and Dead

By Stacey Cochran

Eddie & Sunny (TP only)

By Mark Coggins

No Hard Feelings

By Angel Luis Colón

No Happy Endings (*)

By Jen Conley

Cannibals and Other Stories

By Tom Crowley

Viper’s Tail

Murder in the Slaughterhouse

By Frank De Blase

Pine Box for a Pin-Up

Busted Valentines and Other Dark Delights

A Cougar’s Kiss

By Les Edgerton

The Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping

By A.C. Frieden

Tranquility Denied

The Serpent’s Game

The Pyongyang Option (*)

By Jack Getze

Big Numbers

Big Money

Big Mojo

Big Shoes

By Keith Gilman

Bad Habits

By Richard Godwin

Wrong Crowd

Buffalo and Sour Mash

Crystal on Electric Acetate (*)

By William Hastings (editor)

Stray Dogs: Writing from the Other America

By Jeffery Hess

Beachhead

By Matt Hilton

No Going Back

Rules of Honor

The Lawless Kind

The Devil’s Anvil

By Naomi Hirahara, Kate Thornton & Jeri Westerson (editors)

LAdies’ Night

By Terry Holland

An Ice Cold Paradise

Chicago Shiver

By Darrel James, Linda O. Johnston & Tammy Kaehler (editors)

Last Exit to Murder

By David Housewright & Renée Valois

The Devil and the Diva

By David Housewright

Finders Keepers

Full House

By Jon Jordan

Interrogations

By Jon & Ruth Jordan (editors)

Murder and Mayhem in Muskego

Cooking with Crimespree

By Jerry Kennealy

Screen Test

Polo’s Last Shot (*)

By Dana King

Worst Enemies

Grind Joint

Resurrection Mall (*)

By Ross Klavan, Tim O’Mara & Charles Salzberg

Triple Shot

By JB Kohl and Eric Beetner

Over Their Heads

By S.W. Lauden

Crosswise

By Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks (editors)

Coast to Coast

Coast to Coast 2

By Terrence McCauley

The Devil Dogs of Belleau Wood

The Bank Heist (editor) (*)

By Daniel M. Mendoza (editor)

Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers

By Bill Moody

Czechmate: The Spy Who Played Jazz

The Man in Red Square

Solo Hand

The Death of a Tenor Man

The Sound of the Trumpet

Bird Lives!

Mood Swings (TP only)

By Gerald O’Connor

The Origins of Benjamin Hackett (*)

By Gary Phillips

The Perpetrators

Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes (editor)

Treacherous: Griffters, Ruffians and Killers

3 the Hard Way

By Gary Phillips, Tony Chavira, Manoel Magalhaes

Beat L.A. (Graphic Novel)

By Tom Pitts

Hustle

By Thomas Pluck

Bad Boy Boogie (*)

By Robert J. Randisi

Upon My Soul

Souls of the Dead

Envy the Dead (*)

By Rob Riley

Thin Blue Line

By Linda Sands

3 Women Walk Into a Bar (TP only)

By Charles Salzberg

Devil in the Hole (*)

Swann’s Lake of Despair (*)

Swann’s Way Out (*)

By Scott Sanders

Shooting Creek (*)

By Ryan Sayles

The Subtle Art of Brutality

Warpath

Swansongs Always Begin as Love Songs (*)

By John Shepphird

The Shill

Kill the Shill

Beware the Shill

By Anthony Neil Smith

Worm (TP only)

All the Young Warriors TP only)

Once a Warrior (TP only)

Holy Death (TP only)

By Liam Sweeny

Welcome Back, Jack

By Art Taylor (editor)

Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015

By Ian Truman

Grand Trunk and Shearer

By James Ray Tuck (editor)

Mama Tried 1

Mama Tried 2 (*)

By Lono Waiwaiole

Wiley’s Lament

Wiley’s Shuffle

Wiley’s Refrain

Dark Paradise

Leon’s Legacy (*)

By George Williams

Inferno and Other Stories

Zoë (*)

By Frank Zafiro and Eric Beetner

The Backlist

The Short List

By Frank Zafiro and Lawrence Kelter

The Last Collar (*)

By Grant Jerkins

Abnormal Man

(*) Coming soon

Tom Widmer needed to pay attention. It’s not every night someone tells you how to kill his wife.

Hard enough to hear in Tease as it was, the tekno/disco/hip-hop cranked to Volume Eleven, so loud the pulsing in his eardrums ruined the floor’s foot massage. Chastity’s nipple in his ear didn’t help. She had the rest of her tit wrapped against his cheek like she was about to go off shift in fifteen minutes and needed to get him into the VIP Room now , which she was and did. This was her go-to move when time got short: sit on the arm of his chair, slip the teddy or camisole or whatever they call that thing she wore off-stage out of the way, then ease it in. Usually he didn’t mind. Usually it cost him an extra fifty for a trip to the VIP Room. Not tonight.

Tom turned his head and Chastity gave him a mouthful. He couldn’t resist a quick lick before he pulled away. “I’m sorry, baby. Marty and I gotta talk. Maybe later.”

Chastity pulled a pout. “I go off shift in fifteen minutes, Tommy. Can’t it wait?”

Tom looked at Marty and saw no, it couldn’t wait. “Sorry, babe. Next time.”

“You’re just a tease.” The smile that never reached her eyes didn’t hide the irritation in her voice. Fifteen minutes wasted. She made a show of tucking the nipple away and ran her tongue around his ear. Bit the lobe for good measure. “Next time. You’ll be sorry you passed.”

Marty waited for her to get out of hearing range, about three feet. “Can I have your attention now, or do I have to wait for your dick to get soft again?”

“You’re sure it has to be tomorrow?” Tom swallowed the bottom half of his gin and tonic, looked for the waitress.

Marty put his hand over Tom’s and forced the empty glass onto the table. “Pay attention. This has to be done before Monday. She hired a lawyer. You understand me? She already hired a fucking lawyer. Once they serve me with papers, there’s no way anyone will believe a burglar killed her. Thursday’s my regular night out and we have this thing with her family over the weekend. It has to be tomorrow.”

“That’s not a lot of time to plan.”