Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Theref...

Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Ther...

Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Theref...

Release date: September 7, 2021 Subgenre: Spy Thriller About Beyond Sacrifice : Concepcion Chapa, an Army veteran, FBI special agent, ...

Release date: May 14, 2021 Subgenre: Horror thriller About Before He Wakes : Patrick and Clare wake up trapped in a basement, a thin ...

Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Theref...

Release date: September 22, 2021 Subgenre: Psychological thriller, Horror thriller About Followers : You never know who is on the othe...

Welcome to the latest edition of “Indie Crime Fiction of the Month”. So what is “Indie Crime Fiction of the Month”? It’s a round-up of crime...

Release date: September 14, 2021 Subgenre: Historical mystery, WWII mystery About The Seer : It's February 1942. War grips the wor...

Release date: May 11, 2021 Subgenre: Detective novel, Private Investigators About Denied : PI Kelly Pruett's search to locate a fo...

It gives the Indie Crime Scene great pleasure to interview Harry Navinski, whose second novel in the DCI Suzanna McLeod series, The Duty ,...

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Release date: August 15, 2021 Subgenre: Occult thriller, Crime thriller About Sons of Brutality : A SATANIC SNUFF CLUB A RUTHLESS VIGILA...

Today it gives the Speculative Fiction Showcase Great Pleasure to interview J.L. Doucette, whose latest novel, Unknown Assailant , we featur...

Release date: October 11, 2021 Subgenre: Crime thriller, Revenge thriller About 1414° : The billionaire predators of Silicon Valley alw...

Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Theref...

Today it gives the Indie Crime Scene great pleasure to interview Saralyn Richard, whose latest novel, A Murder of Principal , debuts on Jan...

Publication date: September 25, 2021 About Murder at the Galvez : Eighteen years after discovering the murdered body of her grandfather i...

Today it gives the Indie Crime Scene great pleasure to interview J. Luke Bennecke, whose newly released novel Waterborne we featured on Apri...

Release date: June 10, 2021 Subgenre: Crime thriller, Sea adventure About A Viable Threat : They want to kill a Senator Stopping it ...

Today it gives the Indie Crime Scene great pleasure to interview Cenarth Fox, author of The Detective Joanna Best Mysteries and much, m...

Release date: January 14, 2021 Subgenre: Dark Comedy, Science Fiction Thriller About Cooking for Cannibals : Fountain of youth? More l...

Release date: September 18, 2021 Subgenre: Traditional mystery, Spy fiction About Viper's Nest of Lies : Twice dead…A living ni...

Release date: August 15, 2021 Subgenre: Revenge thriller About The Grifter : One will rise. The other will fall. Kent Bancroft’s rise...

Today it gives the Indie Crime Scene great pleasure to interview Frances Hight, whose novel West Texas Dead was published on May 24, 2021. ...

About Jamoulks : In the desperate days after the repeal of Prohibition the Great Depression blanketed the country; banks failed, crime ran ...

Today it gives the Speculative Fiction Showcase great pleasure to interview John Burns, whose novel The Glass Alibi we featured on July 12....

Release date: September 20, 2021 Subgenre: Cozy mystery About A Conventional Murder : It's a Daylight Savings Crime! Kit Morrison...

Release date: April 30, 2021 Subgenre: Private Investigator About Deadly Dance : Some secrets refuse to stay buried... When Scott Dra...

Release date: March 17, 2021 Subgenre: Adventure thriller, Sea adventure About In Harm's Way : No good deed goes unpunished. When M...

Release date: February 22, 2021 Subgenre: Humorous mystery, Cozy mystery About Murder with Strings Attached : Sometimes even the most ...

Release date: March 23, 2021 Subgenre: Police procedural, Crime thriller About Code of Silence : Belfast. A still divided city rising ...

It gives the Speculative Fiction Showcase great pleasure to interview David Rohlfing, whose novel Cold Consequences we featured on July 26....

Release date: January 5, 2021 Subgenre: Medical thriller About Factor-7 : Factor-7 presents a terrifying scenario that's ripped f...

Release date: May 24, 2021 Subgenre: Pulp Thriller About Tales of the Silencer: The Complete Series : Hardworking pulp writer by day ...

Release date: March 11, 2021 Subgenre: Crime fiction collection About Mangetout : Trouble has a habit of finding some people. Kitche...

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Release date: February 23, 2021 Subgenre: Sword and Sorcery About The Wolf of Rajala: Before Kurval became King of Azakoria, he was a wandering mercenary and monster slayer for hire. One day, Kurval is hired to take out the monstrous wolves that have been besetting the village of Rajala. However, he quickly finds that the wolves are not what they seem. He also realises that the wolves have a very good reason for attacking the villagers… This is a novelette of 8700 words or approx. 30 print pages in the Kurval sword and sorcery series, but may be read as a standalone. Includes an introduction and afterword. Excerpt: “Civilisation…” Kurval thought, as he trudged through the knee deep snow, “…is not all it’s cracked up to be.” In the Year of the Twisted Rope, Kurval had forever left his homeland on the steppes of Temirzhan across the sea behind to seek his fortune in the more civilised lands of the East. That said, he hadn’t left entirely of his own free well. For there was no longer a place in Temirzhan for a captain of the Royal Guard who had not only defied his king but also helped to bring about his death. Even if King Talgat had been a terrible ruler and worse man. And so Kurval had left to find his destiny in the lands across the sea, chasing the prophecy of the dark gods that one day, he would be a mighty king on the far side of the great ocean. But so far, not a hint of that royal destiny had manifested itself to the point that Kurval wondered whether the dark gods had not been toying with him. Nor were the lands across the sea the beacon of civilisation and knowledge he’d expected them to be. Instead, they were mostly cold and miserable. Since it would not do to simply venture into the capital of one of the kingdoms beyond the sea and announce his intention to take the throne — never mind that those blasted dark gods had not even told him which kingdom he was destined to rule — Kurval now plied his trade as a mercenary, offering his arm and his sword to anyone with gold enough to hire him. It wasn’t kinghood, but it was an honest enough profession. This time around, he had been hired by the magistrate of the village Rajala. The village was beset by wolves, which in itself was nothing unusual, for the village lay at the edge of the vast forest of Korjus, a forest that many wolfpacks roamed. And even though wolves normally kept away from humans, as afraid of man as man was of wolves, attacks did happen on occasion. However, in the past three moons, the number of wolf attacks near the village of Rajala has increased. The wolves were also getting bolder, venturing ever closer to the village and its sturdy log cabins. The snatched sheep and sometimes even unwary travellers. Of late, the attacks had gotten even worse. The daughter of a grain merchant only narrowly escaped death when a wolf chased her to the doorstep of her home. A wealthy farmer had his privates bitten off, the judge from the nearest market town lost a leg to the wolf and the village butcher, who also doubled as the hangman, was found dead in the woods, his guts torn out. Even more alarming was that the wolves that beset the village of Rajala were larger than usual. One wolf in particular threatened the village, a vicious beast three times as tall as a man, with razor-sharp fangs and glowing red eyes. Every night, the villagers heard the wolf howl, a howl that seemed to come straight from the underworld, promising death and doom. The magistrate had hired Kurval to slay that giant wolf and as many of the others as he could and bring back the beasts’ pelts in exchange for a bag of gold. As jobs went, this one was easy enough, for Kurval was not afraid of wild beasts, even uncommonly large ones. Furthermore, he strongly suspected that the villagers were exaggerating with regard to the wolf’s size. If only it wasn’t so damned cold… Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Apple | Google Play | Smashwords | Scribd | DriveThru | Thalia About Richard Blakemore: Richard Blakemore (1900 – 1994) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction. Nowadays, he is best remembered for creating the Silencer, a masked vigilante in the vein of the Shadow or the Spider, during the hero pulp boom of the 1930s. But Richard Blakemore also wrote in many other genres, including an early sword and sorcery series about the adventures of a sellsword named Thurvok and his companions and another about a barbarian king named Kurval. Richard Blakemore's private life was almost as exciting as his fiction. He was a veteran of World War I and II as well as a skilled sportsman and adventurer who travelled the world during the 1920s. He may also have been the person behind the mask of the real life Silencer who prowled New York City between 1933 and 1942, fighting crime, protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty, though nothing has ever been proven. Richard Blakemore was married for more than fifty years to Constance Allen Blakemore and the couple had four children. Blog | Twitter About Cora Buhlert: Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. She is the author of the Silencer series of pulp style thrillers, the Shattered Empire space opera series, the In Love and War science fiction romance series, the Helen Shepherd Mysteries and plenty of standalone stories in multiple genres. When Cora is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher. She also runs the Speculative Fiction Showcase and the Indie Crime Scene and contributes to the Hugo-nominated fanzine Galactic Journey. Cora was a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award. Website | Mailing list | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube | ISFDB

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