Mike Miner

Adam Howe

Nikki Dolson

Eryk Pruitt

Thomas Pluck

J. David Jaggers

Don LaPlant

Brandon Patterson

It's another issue of the multi award-wining crime fiction mag, THUGLIT! Filled with EIGHT brand new stories of crime and criminals that will bring you straight to the edge. Dig the nasty, kittens. It ain't gonna be pretty.IT'S GONNA BE THUGLIT!!! In This Issue of Thuglit:ANIMAL CONTROL by Don LaPlantTHE LAST TIME WE SAW BEARS IN LAKE CASTOR by Eryk PruittTHE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT by J. David JaggersMOMMA'S BOY by Mike MinerTHE LAST DETAIL by Thomas PluckOUR MAN JULIAN by Nikki DolsonBRUIN by Brandon PattersonCLEAN-UP ON AISLE 3 by Adam Howe

THUGLIT Issue Nineteen

Matthew Flanagan is living the American dream. A plum job at an ad agency. A hot wife. A beautiful home in Southern California. But something is eating him up inside and a nasty drinking habit is about to cost him everything. After his life finally collapses around him, Matthew disappears to Vegas with a girl he barely knows. When word reaches the Flanagan clan back in Connecticut, Matthew’s brothers Mark and Luke are sent on a mission to find their brother and bring him home. It’s a longer and darker journey than either of them planned on. At turns funny and moving, Prodigal Sons is a hard-boiled American odyssey. A family saga with the heart of a crime novel. Praise for PRODIGAL SONS: “The work of an extravagantly talented writer, Prodigal Sons is one of the best debut novels I have ever read.” —Sterling Watson, author of Suitcase City, Fighting in the Shade, and Sweet Dream Baby “Miner’s wicked electric chair humor calls to mind the best of Elmore Leonard and Charles Willeford.” —Patrick Michael Finn, author of From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet and A Martyr for Suzy Kosasovich

Prodigal Sons

When mobster Richard "Red" Scarlotti's son goes missing, Dylan Thomas Lonagan, a private detective with truckloads of baggage, is hired to find him, and lands himself in the middle of a mob war. As two crime families try to settle old scores, Lonagan is forced to ally himself with Red's hitman brother, Whitey, a hard nut with a soft side and a secret of his own. Together, Lonagan and Whitey make a dangerous, desperate team. Searching to find the missing boy, they dodge bullets from cold-blooded assassins and daggers from the women they love, only to discover that, sometimes, the two are one in the same. In the end, these dirty saints will learn that the road to Heaven is paved with bloody hands and bad intentions.

The Immortal Game

Tom Ward

Michael Haynes

Sarah M. Chen

Nick Andreychuk

Tom Swoffer

Kou K. Nelson

C. D. Reimer

Tekla Dennison Miller

Laird Long

Josh MacLeod

Martin Roy HIll

Gary Cahill

The first Plan B collection showcases a wide variety of plans gone sideways — private eyes getting stuck on cases they really don’t want to take, petty criminals getting in over their heads, law enforcement professionals on the wrong side of the bars, and upstanding citizens finding themselves to be not so law-abiding after all. These stories are as varied as they are excellent — there are light-hearted tales to make you smile, literary pieces that challenge the definition of crime writing, and realistic portraits of difficult and disturbing decisions. Whatever your tastes, I’m sure you’ll find something to enjoy here and maybe something to surprise you.

a mystery and crime anthology

Plan B Volume I

Mike Miner

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