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You can't choose your family-a major career obstacle for DS Shannon McNulty when she takes up a post with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The move back to her hometown of Warrenpoint following a decade on the force in London coincides with the untimely death of her gangster uncle, Brendan. Now Shannon must balance an unofficial investigation into her uncle's shooting with her first case for the PSNI. Swift resolution to the disappearan...

It started when the boss announced: "You guys can fight in the alley, you can fight in the truck yard, but stop fighting in the customers' fucking houses..." This changes everything for Johnny and the rest of the crew, who were accustomed to a policy which allowed drugs and violence during work hours. Moving furniture for a living allowed guys with spotty criminal and work histories to barely keep their heads above water, but the instatement o...

A chemical spill spawns an outbreak of cannibalistic living corpses, and they do what zombies do-head for the nearest mall. But it's Christmas Eve, and the ravenous dead find themselves in a crowd of last-minute shoppers. M.V. Moorhead's novel offers all the gut-ripping, bone-crunching chills that zombie fans demand and a dark side to that most wonderful time of the year.

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We live with so much pain and sadness, so much uncertainty and fear-but, if we understand the truth about reality, it doesn't have to be a problem. Zen practice isn't about improving yourself or otherwise changing yourself-or, least of all, finding yourself. It's about no longer identifying with the self, the personality, your story of who you think you are. It's about stripping such delusions away, meeting life as it is without adding anythin...

Scumbo is a Scottish singer and songwriter who's half rock star and half monk. With too much sex, too little love and no money, this punk troubadour searches for a way to live life on his own terms.In addition to the title novella, this book contains eight dark, funny and compassionate stories of love, friendship, sex and death, set in the urban jungles of Europe and the U.S.A. in the early 1990s. In this world of talking mailboxes, poverty, f...

Barry Graham's horror fiction has earned him comparisons with Bram Stoker, M.R. James and Stephen King, while his neo-noir fiction has been compared to that of James M. Cain, Richard Stark, David Goodis, Quentin Tarantino and Jim Thompson.In this collection of essays examining what Graham contends are the two most important and enduring genres, he combines literary analysis with memoir, and shows us that the monsters we imagine lurking in the ...

This unclassifiable hybrid of harsh autobiography and hard reporting opens with an alienated Barry Graham arriving in Phoenix, Arizona, from his native Scotland in 1995. Plunging into chaotic relationships and empty sexual encounters, he also witnesses two executions and investigates Joe Arpaio, the corrupt and brutal Sheriff of Maricopa County. He investigates the deaths of unarmed young Latino men at the guns of cops, rides along with the Ph...

One for My Baby is a neo-noir tale of crime, sex and free enterprise in the contemporary American Dream.Like many Americans nowadays, Mark Sharpton has had to take a second job to make ends meet. When not performing as a lounge musician, he commits armed robberies.It's all crime all the time in Phoenix, Arizona. When Mark robs a joint owned by a retired mobster, a witness gets a look at his face. Then he falls in obsessive lust with her, and t...

LAURA PONTO WOULDN'T MIND WATCHING Frank del Rio be strapped to the executioner's gurney, even if her job is to find mitigating evidence in death penalty cases. Frank is not a client, but a long time ago he did unspeakable things to children-and Laura was one of them.Now Frank is being released on parole, and they will both learn that their lives are still intertwined. Their story will end in a place even darker than it began in a shattering n...

They call him The Kid. He's a killer, a dark legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, "a child who terrifies adults." They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn't exist, a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene.But he is real. He's a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an appe...

ANDY SAUNDERS KNOWS how to survive. He survived all alone in Los Angeles as a teenager, and he survived in foreign combat zones as a soldier. He survived homelessness on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona, an unforgiving desert metropolis that is the fifth-largest city in the nation.He's had enough of surviving, and now enjoys life, living with his girlfriend, working as a handyman, teaching martial arts and playing in a punk rock band. But, when...

Francoise was "improbably lovely, " the type of character you see in movies. Of course, her life was a life, not a movie. But as the narrator, Barry (a writer who may or may not be the author), stunned by the news of her death, tells "her" story, he cannot find the reality of his friend in the dark, romantic film that flickers in his mind. As he searches for Francoise in a nightmare cityscape of desperate sex and casual violence, he finds only...

Set in the Scottish Third World hidden inside the First, this novel takes a savagely uncompromising and unsentimental look at the true nature of love and friendship in a city that, like its troubled characters, has lost all its old certainties.London-based writer and single father Kevin Previn returns to his native Glasgow after an absence of ten years, his homecoming prompted by the death of a friend and mentor, junkie writer Mike Illingworth...

In this searing collection of stories, people try in various ways to escape the violence and depravity of urban Scotland.A brutalized child rescues his sister in the only way he can imagine. An alienated, drug-addicted boxer fights to live and then lives to fight. A family man slashes faces for money. Lovers, killers, the desperate and the mad search for meaning, or someone to hold, or something to eat, in some of the meanest streets ever rend...