It's an opportunity a journalist and ex-boxer with a complicated personal life can't turn down - joining the camp of the world title challenger, Ricky Mallon, in the run-up to the championship fight. For Billy Piers it's more than work, it's an escap...
With a voice that maintains a gritty strength balanced with poetic vision, Barry Graham pushes all his chips to the center of the table in this collection of from the gut short stories that are as sentimental as they are cynical. Set in America's und...
Scumbo is a Scottish singer and songwriter who's half-rock star and half-monk. With too much sex, too little love and no money, this punk troubadour searches for a way to live life on his own terms. In addition to the title novella, this bo...
They call him the Kid. He’s a killer, a dark Latino legend of the Southwest’s urban badlands, “a child who terrifies adults.” They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn’t ex...
A MYSTERY PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Laura Ponto wouldn't mind watching Frank del Rio being strapped to the executioner's gurney, even if her job is to find mitigating evidence in death penalty cases. Frank's not a client, but a long time ago he di...
Andy Saunders knows how to survive. He survived all alone in Los Angeles as a teenager, and he survived in foreign combat zones as a soldier. He survived homelessness on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona, an unforgiving desert metropolis that is the fi...
"Bram Stoker... M.R. James... Stephen King... Now there is Barry Graham." -- SCOTTISH FIELD "I'm there when it gets dark to kill you if I can..." The Bogey Man's sinister chant used to scare the wits out of Gary Scott when he was a five-year-old, gro...
In this searing collection of stories, people try in various ways to escape the violence and depravity of urban Scotland.
A brutalized child rescues his sister in the only way he can imagine. An alienated, drug-addicted boxer fights to live ...
In issue #8 of the Big Click, we begin with Bragging Rights by Jason Ridler—little bragging, no rights, but plenty of sex. And heartbreaking poverty. Then satirist Ann Sterzinger looks into the dark future of just about everything with You Are...
"This is how to write noir. Brilliant." -- Allan Guthrie, author of Edgar-nominated KISS HER GOODBYE Like many Americans nowadays, Mark Sharpton has had to take a second job to make ends meet. When not performing as a lounge musician, he commits arme...
You can't choose your family-a major career obstacle for DS Shannon McNulty when she takes up a post with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The move back to her hometown of Warrenpoint following a decade on the force in London coincides with th...