But when he forcibly ends the moneymaking scheme of a made man, he gets in the kind of trouble that can lead to a bullet behind the ear. Saved by the grace of his boss and exiled to upstate New York, Isaiah begins a new life, a quiet life without gunshots or explosions. Except a teenage girl disappears, and Isaiah isn't one to let that slip by. And delving into the underworld to track this missing girl will get him exactly the kind of notice he was warned to avoid.

    Desperately searching for answers, Devlin’s only solace is to throw himself into his work, and to run, and run, and run. Protecting the cougars in the rugged wilderness where she vanished was Hanna Wylde’s passion. When the victim of a serial killer is discovered in the same area, Devlin goes on high alert. His only clues are the tracks of a large wild cat, and a strange, bare-footed, woman runner who is faster than anything he’s ever seen on two legs.

    Some of the titles within this collection are well known amongst pulp-fiction and noir fans, while some have not been published in decades. Many of these titles have been made into television shows and feature films throughout the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and were the inspiration for many thrillers in the following years. Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) is one of America's best crime and noir writers, and sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish or George Hopley. He invented and mastered the genre of "Pulp-Fiction" and wrote hundreds of short stories, novellas and full length novels. One of his most famous stories is It Had to be Murder which was adapted into the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window in 1954. Each Volume within this series was curated thematically to give the reader a straightforward, no-nonsense Woolrich experience. Read at your own risk. Volume One of Literary Noir contains seven thrilling and bone-chilling Woolrich classics: - Murder, Obliquely - All at Once, No Alice - Silent as the Grave - After Dinner Story - Death at the Burlesque - Red Liberty - Preview of Death

     The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty. Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery (e.g., Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle), the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century (e.g., Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler), or contemporary masters of mystery. In this issue: Tony Parker has a quick and dirty crime with “Lady Dick”: Samantha was a spy and assassin in the war. But now it’s 1947, and she’s trying to make an honest living as a private eye, seducing women’s husbands to give them grounds for divorce. But the cold war is starting, and someone has a more dangerous job offer for her. “Mop Jockey” by Michael Ayoob shows how a confident, creative mind can efficiently accomplish a task. After witnessing a hate crime on the graveyard shift, a janitor takes it upon himself to seek retribution and blurs the line between justice and revenge. In “A Detour Down Memory Lane” by John H. Dromey, our favourite amateur sleuth, Molly, is back. To what lengths would Molly Sullivan go to assist a blood relative claiming to be in potential jeopardy? Even if she wanted to help, could she adequately adapt her urban sleuthing skills to a rural setting? “The Motor Court” by Jennifer Collins Moore is a light cozy mystery. If the police can’t solve this murder, the ladies at the motel will take over the investigation. The sweet old granny in room six wasn’t supposed to find the body, but 86-year-old Betty had as good a motive as anyone for killing the man. Melodie Campbell provides cross-genre crime fiction with “A Ship Called Pandora.” Years ago, Tosh Molloy made the change from intergalactic smuggler to Witness Protection Marshal. She's particularly good at making people disappear. But now a troublesome showgirl client threatens to upend Tosh’s perfect record … In “Stars” Peter W. J. Hayes brings back Tank in a crime story with grit and corruption. When a deal goes bad you’ve only got once choice. Get in deeper. It’s the only way to protect the ones you love.

    Whatever threat rose to threaten their world, they rose to face it head-on. They were not prepared for the hate-filled media icon Lyle Prather to worm his way into the Presidency of the United States. Amid ongoing protests and outrage, President Prather assembles his cabinet, filling it with a veritable “Legion of Evil,” while stripping away rights and protections for the nation’s most vulnerable. He has even gone so far as to start filling remote “Isolation Centers” with Muslim American citizens. The people are powerless to stop him. Congress, apparently unwilling. Hate and violence are on the rise. Hope is hard to come by. What the world needs now is heroes. Join Gato Loco & Snowflake, Huntsman & Libertine, Archon & Gallows, Madjack & Kara Sparks, Stardust & the Wrecker of Engines, and many more as they re-examine what they stand for and what they’re willing to risk to win back the soul of a nation.

    From noir to hardboiled, and thriller to cozy mystery, these Dames know how to tell tales to thrill, chill and KILL. FEATURING NEW AND EXCITING TALES FROM: Kelley Armstrong(#1 New York Timesbestselling author of Otherworld and the Nadia Staffordcrime trilogy) Elle Wild(Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of Strange Things Done) Hermine Robinson (Anthology of New Canadian Noir) Pat Flewwelling (Author of theHelix series) Melodie Campbell (Derringer and Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of The Goddaughterseries and Rowena Through the Wall) S.G. Wong (Arthur Ellis and Whistler Independent Book Award nominated author of the Lola Stark novels ) Gail Bowen(Canada’s “Queen of Crime”, author of the best-selling Joanne Kilbournmysteries) Darusha Wehm (Author of Beautiful Redand The Home for Wayward Parrots) R.M. Greenaway (Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of Cold Girland Undertow) Natalie Vacha (In Places Between; finalist in the CBC Radio Cowboy Poetry contest) Susan MacGregor (Aurora Award nominated author of The Tattooed Witch trilogy) Alice Bienia (Arthur Ellis Award nominated author of Knight Blind) Meghan Victoria (Antigonish Review) M.H. Callway (Dagger, Arthur Ellis and Bony Pete Award nominated author of Windigo Fire) Sandra Ruttan(Author of Harvest of Ruins, What Burns Within and Suspicious) Jayne Barnard (BPAA, Aurora and Dagger Award nominee and Arthur Ellis Award-winning author of Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamond andWhen the Flood Falls) Edited by Sarah L. Johnson With Halli Lilburne And Cat MacDonald