Released from a Union prisoner of war camp, Confederate Civil War veteran Lieutenant Henry Gates returns to Buzzard Roost, Alabama, shocked to find his family's plantation burned to the ground. Lonely decades slip away as Hank searches for his wife and children before finally settling in Southern California. The year is 1888, and San Diego's real estate boom is gasping its last few breaths. Those hardy souls still remaining eke out an existence by...

It's been thirty years since they witnessed the accidental drowning of their friend. Those who were present – now parents themselves – have begun to receive messages claiming to be from the boy who died. The troubling notes become more alarming when a child disappears. Time is running out for Detective Inspector Jack Munday as he balances the sensitive case alongside personal problems and a demanding new superior officer. In the maelstrom of head-versus-heart,...

A killer targets New York's gay community in this police procedural in the Edgar-winning series. Neil Hockaday's on furlough from the NYPD as he attempts to cut back on the booze, but his new wife, Ruby, is going back to her advertising job after the couple's trip to Ireland. Unfortunately, the same day she returns to the office, her much-disliked ex-boss's body is found, killed in grisly fashion and wearing a leather mask. Meanwhile, some of Hock's...

Caitlin O'Brian is a most effective detective in the McGee Agency, but she does not always play by the rules... or the laws. She is angered at the core by a spate of kidnapping and trafficking of little girls. In her mind, the law is inept, and its enforcers are emasculated. There is no more time to follow that correct route, and she needs a new way. She knows all too well about a pair of influential twins who ignore the law and escape detection....

A ton of reading adventure is here, in our thickest issue yet. Read Classics from H.G. Wells, Jack London, and forgotten author Jane Margaret Hooper's "Bring Me a Light!". What holiday is complete without a detective story... this one by Lawrence L. Lynch. Read an original by K.R. Moore, poetry in Dark Corners, and much more. ALL INSIDE!

Henry Stuart, heir to the British throne, is clever, handsome, a real hero. Unfortunately, he is also tone-deaf in his dealings with the Unseen World. Unbeknownst to him, his ambitious plans for a coming-of-age Faerie court masque have enraged his neighbor monarchs, Oberon and Titania. Seeking recompense, they assign the undead poet Kit Marlowe to bring them the heir.

While conducting a séance for a client with more money than sense, Daisy Gumm Majesty is surprised when a seemingly real spirit makes contact. Eddie Hastings, an attorney in life, wants Daisy to prove his death was not a suicide, but murder. Curious, and a little afraid, she can't reveal how she learned of Eddie's murder to anyone, least of all to her deceased husband's best friend, the mildly detestable Detective Sam Rotondo. Daisy launches her...

Ghosts With Six-Shooters in Dead Man Hand, a Murder Mystery from T. L. Simmons -Red Dollar, New Mexico- Alice, Twila, Granny, Jack, Trucker, and Miss Molly are smack dab in the middle of another murder investigation, this time in a haunted hotel in Red Dollar, New Mexico. The villain is armed with Black Magic, and there's no escape for anyone during the ice storm. Alice keeps telling herself this is Twila's gig, and she's only here to back up her...

This collection brings together the first three books in the hilarious and heartfelt Trailer Park Princess series, with Salem, Viv, G-ma, Stump and the whole gang! Bonus content includes Stump's Story -- how Salem first met Stump!Three complete novels:The Trailer Park Princess and The Middle Finger of FateThe Trailer Park Princess with Unsightly BulgesThe Trailer Park Princess is Caught in the CrotchfirePLUS - Stump's Story

She is a tornado of trouble. A drifter, a grifter, a rebel.A woman with a lot more than just the attitude she wears like a stiletto dagger.She's got a new name in every city. A true name – the very essence of a person or thing.An almost mystical property bestowed from the universe when she invokes the true name. This time, you can call her Gertrude.Needing to get gone and clear her head, Gertrude wanders the darkening evening inside the Francis...