Anonymous-9

Some say he's a serial killer. Others say he's a vigilante doing what police can't or won't do. What's certain is that Dean Drayhart, a paraplegic, will soon sit on death row for killing hit-and-run-drivers in Los Angeles. But not if the Mexican Mafia gets hold of him and those he loves first. Dean may be broken in body but his fierce spirit is determined to protect his pet monkey named Sid and girlfriend Cinda-out there running hard and fast from the law. Hardboiled, funny, relentless, and unexpectedly tenderhearted BITE HARDER delivers riotous action all the way to a bombshell climax that could only have been written by Anonymous-9, the self-declared mad scientist of crime fiction. "Bite Harder is part screwball comedy, part killer crime story entirely unlike anything else out there. It is unique and vicious and bloody funny but what kept me turning pages deep into the night was its heart. I loved Hard Bite, and Bite Harder is even better, stronger, wilder." -Josh Stallings, Beautiful, Naked & Dead, Anthony Award nominee "Brilliant, brutally funny, so real you can taste it. Starring the finest serial-killing helper monkey in all fiction." -Douglas Lindsay, author of The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson, soon to be a major motion picture starring Emma Thompson and Robert Carlyle

Bite Harder

Hard Bite and Other Short Stories

The 1st Short Story Collection

Just so You Know I'm not Dead

Dreaming Deep

Named "BEST CRIME FICTION 2014" alongside Matthew McBride, Joe Lansdale and Karin Slaughter by JustaGuythatLikestoRead blog Bern Aldershot, former bass player for the legendary band Aldershot is attacked in a parking lot. His 1965 Rickenbacker bass is stolen, and that's not all. Desperate to avoid publicity Bern refuses to tell the police or anyone. Big mistake. Three months later depression has him staring down the barrel of his own gun. When his attacker resurfaces there is no one to help or confide in except one: a 16-year-old fangirl named London. Together they play cat and mouse with a suspected serial killer across Los Angeles, piecing together clues from a series of rapes and murders, challenging disbelieving cops and pissed off bikers in a wildly unusual chase and raging conclusion. If you enjoy this book, would you please come back and leave a review? Anonymous-9's CRASHING THROUGH MIRRORS is one wild, funky adrenaline rush-you don't read it; you inhale it, like Peruvian marching powder on a mirror in the bathroom at the Viper Club, trying to get it all sucked up before the gendarmes bust down the door. This is one mighty talent. My heart's still pounding. -Les Edgerton, author of THE RAPIST, THE BITCH, and THE GENUINE, IMITATION, PLASTIC KIDNAPPING "I loved the way Aldershot is portrayed. There is something so real about this character that makes him jump off the script and land in reality..." --Just a Guy that Likes to Read blog "A novelette that locks you in the moment and smacks you through each page. Great depiction of Los Angeles, good tension in the subplots. I'd love to see this as a full novel. Recommended." -Liam Sweeny, author of Welcome Back, Jack! "A suspenseful novel with characters you care about... give us more. --Scott Alderberg, author Jungle Horses

Crashing Through Mirrors

The hit-and-run driver took everything—his wife, child and legs. Now a paraplegic, Dean Drayhart unleashes payback on suspected hit-and-runners in Los Angeles with helper-monkey Sid as his deadly assistant. Dean’s gentle, doting nurse knows nothing about what he’s up to and when Sid tears out the throat of a Mexican Mafia member, Marcie is kidnapped in order to force Dean’s surrender. Armed with nothing but his wits, Sid, and a sympathetic streetwalker named Cinda, Dean manipulates drug-cartel carnales and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in a David-against-Goliath plot that twists and turns to a heart-pounding finale. HARD BITE is ideal reading for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey. Praise for HARD BITE “…outlandish in every way—a crazed noir excursion into an unprecedented heart of darkness. Violent and sometimes funny, always entertaining.” — T. Jefferson Parker, three-time Edgar Award winner “The best, most fiercely original crime novel I’ve read in a long time” —Ray Garton, World Horror Grand Master Award recipient “A carnival of nightmarish fun, HARD BITE had me gasping from one outlandishly terrifying act to the next, each scene involving The Grim Reaper in a wheelchair; a sharp-fanged, treacherous monkey; a SWAT-team posse of drugged Mexican killers; and/or more tough-but-lovable women with guns than a Mickey Spillane novel.” —Jack Getze, Fiction Editor, Spinetingler Magazine “By the end, your heart aches a little for the narrator. That’s the true goal of fiction, or it ought to be—to shift you on your foundations in the reading, leaving you off in a slightly different place from where you started.” — Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day For Sorry, A Bad Day For Pretty “The ride is electric...quality that other writers should aspire to achieve.” —Joseph Patchen for Lurid Lit “Nasty, but a beating heart underneath …very clever; lovely writing.” —Patti Abbott, Derringer Award winner “Anonymous-9 is one of my favorite crime writers.” —Nick Mamatas, Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards nominee

Hard Bite

Gary Phillips

Joe Clifford

Sean Lynch

Sarah M. Chen

Nick Kolakowski

Eric Beetner

Alec Cizak

Paul D. Brazill

Scott Adlerberg

Jen Conley

Patricia Abbott

Eryk Pruitt

Will Viharo

Chris Rhatigan

Ron Earl Phillips

Preston Lang

Rob Pierce

Sean Craven

S.W. Lauden

Renee Asher Pickup

Todd Morr

Travis Richardson

Greg Barth

C. Mack Lewis

Deadlines is a tribute anthology dedicated to the memory of writer and crime fiction enthusiast, William E. Wallace. A career journalist, Wallace got a first-hand look at the darker side of humanity working at various papers in California before settling at the San Francisco Chronicle. Upon retiring, Wallace engaged fully into the crime fiction community connecting with writers and readers not only to promote his own writing, but to promote other writers he enjoyed. It is through William E. Wallace’s career and his stories that the contributors to this anthology take inspiration. These stories are presented with appreciation to his unselfish contribution to our community and our publications. All proceeds of this publication will be donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in the name of William E. Wallace. Learn more about the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at cbldf.org. And read William E. Wallace’s blog at PulpHackConfessions.com. Thank you to those who contributed their time and stories: Preston Lang, Jen Conley, Joe Clifford, Will Viharo, Paul D. Brazill, Patricia Abbott, Rob Pierce, Sean Craven, Eric Beetner, Sarah M. Chen, Nick Kolakowski, S.W. Lauden, Scott Adlerberg, Gary Phillips, Renee Asher Pickup, Eryk Pruitt, Todd Morr, Travis Richardson, Anonymous-9, Sean Lynch, Alec Cizak, Greg Barth, C. Mack Lewis. A joint publication of Shotgun Honey and All Due Respect.

Deadlines: A Tribute to William E. Wallace

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