Libby Cudmore

Raymond Chandler meets Nick Hornby in this clever noir romp through hipster Brooklyn as a mysterious mix tape puts a young amateur sleuth on the hunt for a killer—and for the truths hidden within her own heart. To listen to someone else's mix tapes is a huge breach of trust. But KitKat was dead…and curiosity got the better of me. When a mix tape destined for her friend KitKat accidentally arrives in Jett Bennett’s mailbox, she doesn’t think twice about it—even in the age of iTunes and Spotify, the hipster residents of the Barter Street district of Brooklyn are in a constant competition to see who can be the most retro. But when Jett finds KitKat dead on her kitchen floor, Jett suspects the tape might be more than just a quirky collection of lovelorn ballads. And when KitKat’s boyfriend Bronco is arrested for her murder, Jett and her best friend Sid set out to discover the real killer on an epic urban quest through strip joints and record stores, vegan bakeries and basement nightclubs. But the further into KitKat’s past she goes, the more she discovers about her own left-behind love life—and the mysterious man whose song she still clings to….

A Novel

The Big Rewind

For fans of Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford comes Negative Girl: an evocative, moody, neo-noir thriller that explores obsession and people dying across America's forgotten spaces. Martin Wade lived hard in his youth, but unlike many of his former bandmates and roadie friends, he didn’t die young. Instead he hit the recovery path, cleaned up his life, and became a private investigator in a dying city in upstate New York. When his heavily tattooed and scarred assistant Valerie sets up an appointment with a young woman who needs help keeping her biological father away from her, none of the three realize that the father is Martin’s old bandmate, still using, and on a destructive path that will soon be headed straight for Martin’s clean life. As Martin struggles, Valerie becomes increasingly obsessed with their new client’s life.

Negative Girl

John McNally

George Moore

Joseph Grant

Hugh Fox

Austin Hackney

Katia Noyes

Bill Hillmann

Murphy Edwards

R. G. Johnson

William Prystauk

Calvin Seen

Mike Sauve

Matthew Wilding

Michael Giorgio

Mark Fellin

Stephen De France

Jim Boring

Jessica Comola

David Weiden

D. G. Bracey

Flynn O'Brien

Ryan Mattern

Brett Spencer

Luke Crumley

Frankie Leone

Matthew C. Funk

Behnam Riahi

Devon Polderman

Kimberly Warner-Cohen

Kathryn Morrill

Sarah Van Den Bosch

Alanna Belak

Arron J. Marko

Criminal Class Review

S. A. Cosby

Albert Tucher

Paul J. Garth

Jay Butkowski

R. D. Sullivan

Stories of Police Oppression

Under The Thumb

Kat Richardson

Naomi Hirahara

Richie Narvaez

Aaron Erickson

Peter Spiegelman

Jim Winter

Steve Brewer 

W.H. Cameron 

Reed Farrel Coleman 

Matthew Quinn Martin

Jim Thomsen

Think you can’t buy a thrill? This book proves you wrong. Katy lied. Or did she? As with the blues and Elvis and somebody else’s favorite song, it’s open to interpretation. These twelve tales interpret shady pasts, dubious presents, and doomed futures. There’s no hiding inside a hall of rock and sand from stories as deliciously wicked and terrifically twisty as the jazz-rock noir that inspired them. These masters of crime fiction heard the call and wrote it on the wall for you and me. As they name the beast, they make alive worldly wonders in characters you’ve known for decades through the hypnotically woven tapestries of Steely Dan, destined to live on as indelibly as the hallucinatory memories in the caves of Altamira. Edited by Brian Thornton with stories by Steve Brewer, W.H. Cameron, Reed Farrel Coleman, Libby Cudmore, Aaron Erickson, Naomi Hirahara, Matthew Quinn Martin, Richie Narvaez, Kat Richardson, Peter Spiegelman, Jim Thomsen, and Jim Winter.

Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan

A Beast Without a Name

Libby Cudmore

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