A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.
Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele.  To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.” He prowls the...

1935, San Diego! The femme fatale of the pulps, The Domino Lady, investigates the disappearance of an actual one million dollar bill from an International Exposition. Complication: the head of security is her cocky ex-boyfriend…

Pinecone Grove is a sleepy little timber town half way between nowhere and nowhere else. Called Pinecone by the locals, it has three pubs and a dark history.

Cassandra Porterfield is a blow-in, somebody who stopped at Pinecone on her way through a couple of years ago and hasn't moved since. She doesn't know why, perhaps it's her friends, perhaps it's familiar. It isn't the town. She hates it.

Bernard Monroe is the owner of Circus Elysium.

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Featured author Kelly Robson shows us that wine making is a labor of love, and sometimes hate, in 'Good for Grapes'. Matthew Hughes's magnum opus, What the Wind Brings, debuts aboard the Spanish galleon La Virgen, with an epic struggle brewing on the horizon. Stella Ryman is ready for new adventures in Stella Ryman and the Locked Room Mystery by Mel Anastasiou, while Allaigna must make hasty goodbyes in the final chapter of Allaigna's Song: Aria by...

You'll always be #2…until you take out #1. Meet Butch: Gulf War-forged, ninja-trained, mean street muscle. He works for the top pimp in town. But he's tired of taking orders.

Our journey begins under the gaze of The Faery Godmother by cover artist Ashley Rose Goentoro. We step into a ghost story 'Man with Golden Helmet' by feature author Renée Sarojini Saklikar. Dawn Lo in 'Little Snowflake Girls' and Weiwei Xu in 'Chimera' introduce us to young people exploring meaningful questions of identity and belonging. Like trailside inukshuks, memories pile up and tumble away in 'Moons of Saturn' by James Dorr, 'Practising the...

With the beautiful red pointe shoe of On Thin Ice, cover artist Ann-Marie Brown offers this issue's poignant opening act. Just as a dancer in pointe appears weightless, suspended in a moment of grace, so too do our authors, balancing the weight of beauty and sorrow. Blood and booze set the stage in 'Wrap Party' as featured author AM Dellamonica takes us behind the scenes of community theatre. It's turtles all the way down as Frances Rowat explores...

With friends like these...Caroline Tate seems to have it all: she's beautiful, married to a wealthy and handsome man, and newly relocated from Boston to an exotic island off the coast of Thailand. But beneath the veneer of perfection lurk secrets of betrayal and tragedy that make her volatile and vulnerable.When Caroline is befriended by a seductive American widow and a charmingly mysterious Englishman she is drawn into a sinister spiral of manipulation...

With A Foundations of Lies by cover artist Kris Sayer, we emerge from the dark woods with Tatterhood's loyal goat Bokki. Sword in hand (or mouth!), and fierce battle won, we are ready to take on the varied landscapes of this issue, no passport required. In 'The Library Giant' by feature author Shashi Bhat, the struggle with nature, human nature, rages deep within. Meanwhile, in British Columbia and Iceland, ghosts of grief wander with the living...