By Brian Thornton
This selection of crime fiction via many of the West Coast's top secret writers will immerse the reader in a wealthy palette of colours that paints a extensive mosaic of crime alongside the Pacific Rim. operating the size of the western fringe of the rustic from Alaska to SoCal and again, those eighteen tales make their surroundings one more personality within the plot.
Starting with a foreword written by means of mythical Irish secret author Ken Bruen to tightly crafted tales via best-selling authors equivalent to David Corbett, Steve Hockensmith, Simon wooden and Terrill Lee Lankford, to fascinating new voices from the likes of Scotti Andrews and Jim Thomsen, secret fanatics will get pleasure from a suite as wide-ranging and sundry because the area itself.
West Coast Crime Wave is the 1st in a sequence of crime fiction anthologies and different works released in booklet structure by way of BSTSLLR.Com, a brand new ebook press based by way of Michael Wolf. This anthology, edited through Brian Thornton, comprises brief tales from a few of the US west coast’s hottest crime fiction writers.
Authors incorporated during this anthology:
Ken Bruen (Foreword)
Brian Thornton (Editor)
Scotti Andrews
Steve Brewer
Bill Cameron
David Corbett
Ted Hertel
Naomi Hirahara
Steve Hockenmith
Thomas Hopp
R.T. Lawton
Terrill Lee Lankford
Doug Levin
Nick Mamatas
Sam Roseme
Karla Stover
Jim Thomsen
Jim Winter
Simon Wood
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"BSTSLLR has come charging out of the gate with their first supplying, West Coast Crime Wave...every tale within the assortment is definitely well worth the cost of admission" - Elizabeth A. White, Elizabeth A. White e-book stories
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I leave the book; library’s the safest place for it. Roam the inn. There’s a fire in the great-room, no one to enjoy it. Fi’s door—the one where she rejected Morgan—is closed. I’m tempted to knock, but if she even answers, she’ll probably tell me the way is closed—whatever the fuck that means—or start chattering about rainbows and unicorns. Anything but answer my actual questions. I end up descending to the grotto. To the healing waters. I’m not normally a hot tub kind of guy, but the mineral bath after my dunk in the drink felt good.
Or parts of her. People don’t like to admit it, but there are some big predators out there. ” “Brod and Petty are both sitting on two strikes. ” He chuckles, then quickly gets pensive again. ” “I think so. ” “You know old Fi had been around for just about ever. ” He shakes his head. ” He makes to take his leave, but eyes me one last time. ” I settle back in a great-room chair before one of Egg’s mighty fires. ” BLIND DATE By Scotti Andrews Seattle, Washington Kim recognized him the instant she walked through the door of the crowded Starbucks.
Yet sound travels in its own way on the sea. For a moment, I hear her voice, a whisper in the rain. “… the last ship …” And then all I hear is the rain and rushing wind. By the time I reach shore, I’m frozen to the bone, my sides are about to split open. My scars burn like lines of gasoline on a sheet of ice. When I drag myself at last up onto the sand, Brod is curled in a ball at the feet of a deputy sheriff in rain gear. I can’t feel the rain. Tweetie lurks behind him, her face a tangle of emotions.
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