Five years after The Dispatcher, the sound of gunfire shatters Ian Hunt’s peace—and drags him back into a nightmare.Since rescuing his abducted daughter, Maggie, Chief Ian Hunt has carved out a quiet life in Bulls Mouth, Texas. Maggie is healing. Ian is finally breathing again. And his bond with Sally De Santo—the town’s dangerously alluring gun shop owner—has grown into something worth holding on to.But all it takes is one phone call. One gunshot....

The second anniversary issue of a mystery magazine which Bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman has called “a cut above” and mystery grand masters Lawrence Block and Max Allan Collins have praised for its “solid fiction” and “the most elegant design”.Our Issue Nº8: Winter 2019 featuresA curated collection of short fiction including stories by Hester Young, Edgar Award Winner SJ Rozan, Hilary Davidson, Ryan David Jahn, Edgar Award Winner Gary Earl Ross, Jonathan Ferrini, Kev...

In this military thriller, a US Marine Corps sniper's quest for vengeance traps him in a Mexican prison, and only his brothers in arms can rescue him.James Murphy is a Marine Corps sniper. He's done two tours in Afghanistan. He's considered an American Hero. And James is out for revenge.Alejandro Rocha, a massively powerful drug kingpin who operates out of La Paz, Mexico, is responsible for the death of James's sister, and James intends to make Rocha pay for ...

It wasn't every day you had the chance to track down the man who'd killed your mother.In 1964, Andrew Combs' mother is killed in front of him. His father Harry vanishes soon afterwards. Twenty-six years later Andrew wants revenge. There's only one way he can let go of his past and become the man he wants to be: track down and kill his mother's murderer*.* His father.But while Andrew thinks he knows what happened all those years ago, the truth is fa...

Ian Hunt is the police dispatcher for the small town of Bulls Mouth, East Texas. Just as his shift is ending he gets a call from his fourteen-year-old daughter, Maggie.Maggie, who has just been declared dead, having been snatched from her bedroom seven years ago. Her call ends in a scream.The trail leads to a local couple, but this is just the start of his battle to get his daughter back. What follows is a bullet-strewn cross-country chase along Interstate 10, from Texas to...

*Now a six-part Apple TV+ series, Last Seen, starring Patrick Brammell of Colin from Accounts*‘A one-sitting, fist-in-mouth read’ – The GuardianThe phone rings. It’s your daughter. She’s been dead for four months.Ian Hunt is the police dispatcher for the small town of Bulls Mouth, East Texas. Just as his shift is ending, he gets a call from his fourteen-year-old daughter, Maggie.Ma...

Katrina Marino is about to become America’s most infamous murder victim.This is Katrina’s story, and the story of her killer.It is also the story of Katrina’s neighbours, those who witnessed her murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam draftee; the woman who thinks she’s killed a child, and her husband who will risk everything for the truth; the former soldier planning suicide and the man who saves him. And others whose lives are touched by the crime: the elderly teach...

‘This is the first book I’ve read in two years that has caused me to sit up until the early hours to finish it, and the denouement was as satisfying as those in Earthly Powers, Presumed Innocent, The New City, The Bonfire Of The Vanities, The Deptford Trilogy or any of the other novels that have induced me to start drinking coffee after midnight’Dylan Jones GQ on The DispatcherA chilling thriller repackaged in the new br...

Private Investigator Damien Lamb: a man hardened by life and seeking justice against those who have wronged society. When the vulnerable Abigail walks into his office asking Lamb to retrieve her daughter from the confines of infamous cult, the Children of God, Lamb can't help but fall for her story. And so begins a breath-taking and dangerous journey as Lamb attempts to rescue Abigail's daughter, Lily, and bring down the charming yet heinous leader of the cult, Rhett Mosley. But Abigail's ...

Los Angeles, 1952After thirteen-year-old Sandy Duncan shoots his stepfather and carves a symbol from a comic book into the corpse’s forehead, district attorney Seymour Markley launches a grand jury investigation into the murder, one that could implicate east-coast crime boss James Manning.Also in the frame is the comic book’s creator, Eugene Dahl. When threatening notes appear nailed to his front door, he is lured to a downtown hotel where one of the men who could bring dow...

In this military thriller, a US Marine Corps sniper’s quest for vengeance traps him in a Mexican prison, and only his brothers in arms can rescue him.James Murphy is a Marine Corps sniper. He’s done two tours in Afghanistan. He’s considered an American Hero. And James is out for revenge.Alejandro Rocha, a massively powerful drug kingpin who operates out of La Paz, Mexico, is responsible for the death of James’s sister, and James intends to make Rocha pay fo...

Five years after The Dispatcher, the sound of gunfire shatters Ian Hunt’s peace—and drags him back into a nightmare.Since rescuing his abducted daughter, Maggie, Chief Ian Hunt has carved out a quiet life in Bulls Mouth, Texas. Maggie is healing. Ian is finally breathing again. And his bond with Sally De Santo—the town’s dangerously alluring gun shop owner—has grown into something worth holding on to.But all it takes is one phone call. One gunshot....