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After suffering a lifetime of tyranny under her father's oppressive rule, when Lou-Lou sees a chance to make a break with the man she loves, she takes it. Problem is, daddy's also known as Big Bobby Joe, a dangerous and powerful man in the local area--powerful enough to put out a sixty grand bounty on the head of the man she's run off with, who also happens to be one of his ex-employees. With every criminal affiliate out looking for them, making good on their getaway doesn't seem promising. Even their so-called friends are on the take, willing to pull a double-cross if that's what's going to turn them a quick buck. But Big Bobby Joe hasn't counted on his daughter's resolve to distance herself from him. No matter what he throws at her, no matter what he does, she's going to get away--or die trying. Praise for GUILLOTINE: "A missing girl, a father who wants her back, a hitman. You think you know where this story is going, but in Paul Heatley's masterful hands, Guillotine never takes the expected path. Full of crackling dialogue, characters whose actions surprise you at every turn, and an ending you'll be thinking about for days after." --Hector Acosta, author of Hardway Praise for PAUL HEATLEY: "Paul Heatley is one of the most compelling writers currently working in the UK." --Tom Leins, author of Repetition Kills You "Heatley has an adept ear, and he's got the writer's chops to translate what he hears." --Matt Phillips, author of Accidental Outlaws "Heatley has this genre down pat and few others can top his style. Step into the dark and enjoy the fun." --Grady Harp, San Francisco Review of Books

Newcastle, 1978. John is sleeping with Mary. Mary is married to Daniel. Both men work for her father, the Top Man. Daniel is his son-in-law, next in line to take over his little empire. John is muscle. The Top Man orchestrates robberies-banks, pay rolls, anything that will bring in some easy money. When Daniel discovers his wife's illicit liaison, he wants John dead. The Top Man signs off on it.But John's a man you only get one shot at. When Daniel happens to botch that one shot, then everyone involved needs to watch their back. Because John will be coming for them, and he won't stop until he's taken revenge on every last one involved in leaving him for dead.Praise for CUTTHROAT: "Paul Heatley remains a master of savagery, of bloody men and how they live, how they die, how they kill." -Rob Pierce, author of Tommy ShakesPraise for Paul Hartley: "Heatley is becoming a master of American noir in the vein of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain." -David Nemeth

After a raid on one of Neil Doyle's drug houses, his new right hand man Jimmy Finlay is determined to keep the news quiet from Neil and to deal with things himself. The person responsible, however, is not someone that can be dealt with quickly. He's a dangerous man with a bad reputation. Things are primed to get bloody in Newcastle, and that's the last thing Neil needs as he works on the unveiling of his brand new nightclub.If Jimmy can't get things under control, Neil's going to have to turn to one of his firm's old hands, Graeme Taylor. Trouble is, no one has seen or heard from Graeme in close to a year, save for his surrogate son Tracksuit Tony Gordon, and he's not in any rush to give him away.But there's only one way things can be with men this violent by design.

Crime Syndicate Magazine is back with ten fantastic crime fiction short stories from some of the top crime writers on the market today. Guest-edited by Eryk Pruitt, this issue has a little something for everyone: Work out your drugged-out marital problems and feed your family from the East Texas countryside in Eryk Pruitt's "The Deplorables.Find out if you're being detained, and what depraved results the answer might hold in Kevin Z. Garvey's "Good Cop Bad Cop."Reach for the sky and fall through the floor in Max Booth III's "Below the Angels."Can you escape a schmuck's fate in Dennis Day's throwback historical noir story "Schmuck?"Help your new college bestie murder a New Orleans local "god" in Nina Mansfield's "Gods and Virgins in the Big Easy."Think twice before you front on an old schooler in S.A. Cosby's "Slit the Belly."Take in the beard cream smell while you take down some skinny jeans in Travis Richardson's "Hipster Pantsin'."Show off your new racist jail tat while you dredge up demons from the past in Paul Heatley's "The Whitest Boy on the Block."Get your trap music murder on in Allen Griffin's "Dirty South of Heaven.""Take down career criminals and the ghosts from your past in David A. Anthony's "The Contractors."