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In its fourth installment, Shotgun Honey presents twenty-three tales of crime that will hit so hard that the recoil will be felt long after the stories are done. With new and established authors from around the world, Shotgun Honey Presents Volume 4: RECOIL delivers stories that explore a darker side of remorse, revenge, circumstance, and humanity.• "Tell the Man About Love" by Rusty Barnes• "The Ghost Road" by Susan Benson• "Hotelin'" by Sara...

Meet Kraj-pronounced krai-a low-level errand boy and hitman masquerading as a bouncer for Tricky Ricky Gutierrez, nefarious owner of the Twist, a club in upstate Elmira NY. A place that has both a LGBTQIA night and a cowboy country night, this cockeyed corner bar in northern Appalachia supports Ricky's illegal schemes, and serves as a rural balm for Croatian-war refugee Kraj.Kraj plies his trade over a short span, moving from petty theft to st...

Coal Black is unfiltered mountain crime. Set in the hills of eastern Kentucky, these tales lay bare the dark realities of the region. Sometimes the backdrop is the opioid epidemic and all the human detritus and bloodshed that comes with it. Other times it's poachers or petty thieves who take center stage, people whose wild desperation invite danger everywhere they go. High in the hills the action takes place, alongside the rarely seen animals ...

Derek Weaver's a junkie.He's also homeless and jobless and into his dealer for way more cash than he can hope to repay. So when he's given an ultimatum by the regional heroin supplier-commit a home invasion and steal enough jewelry to cover that man's debt or take a one-way trip into the Atlantic on a lobster boat-he makes the only possible choice.But things go sideways and Derek soon finds himself a multiple murderer on the run from both law ...

Carnegie Fitch can be called a lot of things. Ambitious is not one of them.Months after escaping death in the circus ring at the hands of the Dead Clowns and the feet of a stampeding elephant, he is no longer a half-assed private eye with an office and no license, but instead a half-assed tow truck driver without either. Still, he manages to find ample time to drink lots of diner coffee, hang with fellow down-and-out diner denizens and have al...

Criminal defense attorney Agnes Rodrigues got her client Hank Alves acquitted of a murder in the rainforest of the Big Island, but the victim was a cop's wife, and a case like this doesn't end with "not guilty." When someone takes a shot at her client, and that someone looks like a cop, Agnes knows no one in Hawaii will take on the job of protecting Hank.Agnes travels to New Jersey to hire ex-prostitute Diana Andrews and her crew of bodyguards...

Lucy Ramos is out for blood-she needs to kill a man, but she has no clue how. Lucy calls on the help of aged hit-man, Tito Garza-also known as El Perro of Pedro. Garza's signature method of killing? Using dogs to maul his targets to death. Now, in his golden years, Garza lives a mundane life in San Pedro, a port town south of downtown Los Angeles. With a backpack full of cash, Lucy persuades Garza to help her murder her mother's killer, Assist...

Lucy Ramos is out for blood-she needs to kill a man, but she has no clue how. Lucy calls on the help of aged hit-man, Tito Garza-also known as El Perro of Pedro. Garza's signature method of killing? Using dogs to maul his targets to death. Now, in his golden years, Garza lives a mundane life in San Pedro, a port town south of downtown Los Angeles. With a backpack full of cash, Lucy persuades Garza to help her murder her mother's killer, Assist...

When Kyle Gordon hears that his mother is terminally ill he makes the journey back to his hometown for the first time in nearly two decades, only…home isn't what it used to be. Kyle is shocked by the dilapidation that has befallen his town. For nineteen years Kyle vowed to protect the people of his country, serving in the armed forces. On returning home he realises that there were those needing protection right on his own doorstep and it was f...

Christian, conservative, and facing fiscal bankruptcy, Pharris County is a casualty of the economic downturn and the demise of big tobacco. And it's where Paul Little begins a new life on his deceased grandfather's farm. But his self-imposed exile is short-lived when he meets "Bo", a former Sheriff and his grandfather's old friend, and Gilly Catlett, a precocious girl with a dark secret. Paul's splendid isolation is repeatedly interrupted by G...

Hooligan and low-level criminal enforcer Jason "Candy" Stahl ("Irish" to his sometime girlfriend Rosario) has made a good life collecting money for his boss Otis, breaking the occasional leg or elbow, fucking Rosario, and living the life in Revere, MA. One collection trip, though, at the Diovisalvo Liquor Store, unravels events that turn Candy's life into a horror-show. In quick succession he moves up a notch in the organization, overseeing a ...

After seeing Frank deliver an impressive ass kicking in a bar fight, Russian mobster Popov hires him to be his driver. What Popov doesn't know is that when Frank is sober, he's inhumanly fast, deadly, and mute, when Frank is on the sauce, he's a useless twenty-something wiseass. Double-crossed in a drug deal gone bad, Frank and Popov have one night to recover their stolen cash or get wiped off the map. Frank's special abilities put him in the ...

Carnegie Fitch, once-upon-a-time drifter and now half-assed private eye, has a sharp tongue, a cheap suit and dog-bite marks on his fedora. Yes, that's just how he rolls through the downtown streets of Vancouver, BC, Canada, aka Terminal City, circa 1957, a land of neon signs, 24-hour diners and slumming socialites. Fitch gets the case of a lifetime when he gets caught up in the death of a janitor with a checkered past as a circus performer an...

Eddie Pax is a special kind of repo man: he recovers "wet money" - assets that have been stolen from one of the largest criminal syndicates in North America. The job is often grim because when Eddie closes an account, he also kills the thieves. But when his boss sends him out to recover five million dollars' worth of bearer bonds two crooks hot-fingered from a vault in New York, Eddie gets a rare opportunity to mix business and pleasure: one o...

When the body of an undocumented Mexican immigrant is found abandoned on a roadside, Detectives Mason Page and Farrah Tyler have no clue how a throwaway case that neither wants to let go will affect their lives. On the job, Page and Tyler are the only two female detectives in El Paso CID's Crimes Against Persons unit, and have to deal with the condescension of their male counterparts. Off the clock, the two have developed an intimate friendshi...

Family man Carl, with his wife and daughter, are on their way check on his young son who had been hospitalized for an ear infection complicated by the boy's Type 1 Diabetes. Stopped at a light they are confronted by a gunman who pulls Carl from the vehicle, stealing the vehicle and his family with it. Desperate, Carl, will do anything to save his family, even commit a carjacking himself. Carl finds himself chasing after his family, being chase...

Captain Patrick Donovan was once a real American hero. Used to run missions for special forces, for the CIA. Now he is a pirate, a mercenary making a handsome living in the Southwestern U.S. as a bag man for the cartels, a liaison between the suppliers and the buyers. He is haunted by the sins of his past, by a mission gone terribly wrong. He can't stop thinking about the soldier who rescued him, Chris Rogers. The man who took a bullet in his ...

Ex-IRA hard-ass, wanted international criminal, and all-around hooligan Blacky Jaguar is back and on the run. After painting the Cross Bronx Expressway red-literally-and losing his beloved car Polly to his ex, Linda Chen (who isn't returning his calls because she's not a complete idiot), Blacky decides his time is running short and has tasked himself with one last stop before tossing hands up and surrendering: Graceland. Of course, nothing Bla...

Mexican Federal Agent Marcos Camarena dedicated his life to the job. But in a country where white knights die meaningless deaths, martyred in a hole with fifty other headless bodies in the desert, corruption is not an attribute but a scale, no longer a stigma but the status quo. When Marcos's life is threatened, he leaves law enforcement and his life in Mexico City behind for a coastal resort town--until an old friend asks him to look after an...

Detective Errol Coutinho of the Hawaii County Police has a serial killer of prostitutes to catch and a shortage of leads to pursue. Office Jessie Hokoana of the Honolulu P.D. has an undercover assignment that tests her loyalties and takes her to the brink of death. When their cases collide in the rainforest of the Big Island, family ties turn deadly, and there may be no pu'uhonua-no place of refuge-for anyone.