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  The Butcher - A Cockney Killer...

  Will Patching

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  A dark and disturbingly twisted 'short shot':  
  Meet Antony Harding, psychopath. He'll make your skin crawl...  
  In this short story of some 46 minutes, the listener is taken deep into the mind of an unreformed and unrepentant serial killer—Antony Harding, aka 'The Butcher'. 
  This unique mini-thriller, written from a vicious murderer's perspective, is a first-person narration, performed by award-winning voice artist, Gary Furlong. 
  Strap yourself in for a ride on the dark side! But be warned—this author's warped fictional works are not for the faint-hearted. 
  'The Butcher' also plays a significant role as a devious villain in Mutilated, the second British crime thriller in The Remorseless Trilogy. This gritty full-length novel is performed by the same talented narrator, so if you feel the urge to hear more about sly reprobate Harding, you may do so... 
  Please note: The Butcher short story also appears in Will Patching's Short Shots: Blood on their Hands.

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  Maggody in Manhattan

  Joan Hess

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  Small-town police chief Arly Hanks takes on the New York Police Department to save her mother from a murder rap in this madcap police procedural.When her marriage went up in smoke, Arly Hanks left Manhattan and never looked back. As police chief of Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, Arly is a glorified traffic cop, and she couldn’t be happier. But when Arly's mother, the indomitable Ruby Bee Hanks, is invited to a baking contest in New York, Arly is forced to return to the city she hates—and the Big Apple is even more rotten than she remembered. Ruby Bee has hardly preheated her oven when a naked man is found shot in her bedroom and the NYPD throws her in jail. As tempting as it may be to let her mother rot on Rikers Island, Arly has no choice but to solve the case herself, facing down killers, bakers, and the most dangerous villain of all: her ex-husband. Joan Hess is better than anyone when it comes to writing small-town murder mysteries, and Maggody in Manhattan shows she knows her way around big cities too. When the wacky residents of Maggody are loosed on the Big Apple, New York City will get turned upside down.

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  Fifty-Fifty O'Brien

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Winchester Remington Smith is a crack shot. Problem is, surrounded by roller coasters and merry-go-rounds, his talent is going to waste, knocking down ducks in a carnival shooting gallery. Win wants some real action, and like Gary Cooper as Sergeant York, he’s going to war-running off to join the U.S. Marines to fight a guerilla insurgency south of the border. In the jungles of Central America, Win takes a different kind of roller coaster ride. Quick and quiet, he’s now a runner. It’s a vital role, but he feels like a messenger boy, unable to put his rifle to good use. Even when he saves the life of First Sergeant Fifty-Fifty O’Brien-a Marine so gung-ho he has about a fifty-fifty chance of survival-Win ends up facing a disciplinary hearing for disobeying orders. Can the young sharpshooter redeem himself? Win’s about to get his chance, an opportunity to deliver a message that the Marines will never forget. Step right up and take a shot as the audio version of Fifty-Fifty O’Brien leads you from the carnival midway to the middle of the jungle as a young Marine takes aim at heroism.Hubbard knew exactly what it meant to be a Marine. As he wrote in 1935: “Most of the fiction written about [Marines] is of an intensely dramatic type, all do-or-die and Semper Fidelis.” But the reality, he said, was far different. “I’ve known the Corps from Quantico to Peiping, from the South Pacific to the West Indies, and I’ve never seen any flag-waving. The most refreshing part of the U.S.M.C. is that they get their orders . . . and do the job and that’s that.” It’s that kind of unique and pointed insight that he brings to stories like Fifty-Fifty O’Brien. Also includes the military adventures The Adventure of X, in which a French Foreign Legionnaire’s intelligence mission leads him into an enemy ambush, and he has to warn his fellow Legionnaires before they walk into a massacre; and Red Sand, the story of a disgraced Chicago cop who joins the Legionnaires and finds his investigative skills invaluable in the desert.

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  The Diva Runs Out of Thyme - A...

  Krista Davis

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  Few can compete with the Natasha Smith when it comes to entertaining, but her childhood rival, Sophie Winston, certainly tries. While Natasha is known for her intricate centerpieces and painstakingly prepared gourmet meals, Sophie likes to keep things simple . . . real simple. Natasha may have stolen the spotlight-and Sophie's husband-but Sophie is determined to take home the prize at the Stupendous Stuffing Shakedown. She just needs the right ingredients . . .However, Sophie's search for the perfect turkey takes a basting when she stumbles across a corpse. And when the police find her name and photo inside the victim's car, they think she has some explaining to do. Sophie will have to set her trussing aside to solve the murder-or she'll be serving up prison grub-and that definitely wouldn't be a good thing.

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  Murder to Go - Murder Mysteries

  Loren Estleman, Joan Hess,...

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  Feast on this delectable collection of "whodunits" from some of the mystery world'             s most diabolical chefs. Whet your appetite with Sara Paretsky's "Skin Deep," in which fan-favorite Chicago private investigator, V.I. "Vic" Warshawski, takes on a chi-chi salon after one of its clients turns up dead. For your next course, try Wendy Hornsby's award-winning "Nine Sons," a country schoolteacher's recollection of a gifted student whose farm life was more troubled than it seemed. Then treat yourself to Elizabeth Peters'              “             The Runaway,”              which tells of two sisters who flee from home—             and head straight into the arms of terror. Other menu choices include chilling delights from Loren D. Estleman, Joan Hess, Sharyn McCrumb, Marcia Muller, Barbara Paul, Nancy Pickard, and Bill Pronzini. Here are the murderous main courses:•              “             Skin Deep”              by Sara Paretsky, read by Paula Prentiss•              “             Nine Sons”              by Wendy Hornsby, read by Barbara Bain•              “             The Man Who Loved Noir”              by Loren D. Estleman, read by Henry Polic II•              “             Death of a Roman Writer”              by Joan Hess, read by Henry Polic II•              “             A Wee Doch and Doris”              by Sharyn McCrumb, read by Barbara Bain •              “             The Sanchez Sacrements”              by Marcia Muller, read by Diane Baker•              “             Appetites”              by Barbara Paul, read by Ed McMahon•              “             A Killing in Xanadu”              by Bill Pronzini, read by Ed McMahon•              “             Lazy Susan”              by Nancy Pickard, read by Paula Prentiss•              “             The Runaway”              by Elizabeth Peters, read by Diane Baker

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  Down and Out on Murder Mile - A...

  Tony O'Neill

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  After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life.In prose that could peel paint from a car, Tony O'Neill re-creates the painfully comic, often tragic days of a recovering heroin addict.

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