Two books, one anthology.

The grift. The scam. The double-cross. Blackmail and burglary; murder and larceny. Blood Business tracks the underbelly of human nature as it drags itself through the muck of our lesser angels in twenty-seven crime stories set in this world... and beyond.

Table Of Contents From This World

Foreword by Gary Phillips
Introduction by Mario Acevedo
Doubling Down on Death: Two Fatal Features by Edward Bryant
Bone on Wood by Mark Stevens
Black and Blue by Carter Wilson
Girls Gone Wild by Cat Rambo
Night in Tunisia by Manuel Ramos
An Officer and a Hitman by Gary Jonas
Slug by Paul Goat Allen
Morphing by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
The Pledge by Mark Stevens & Dean Wyant
Shadows Within Shadows by Mark Stevens & Dean Wyant
It Doesn’t Mean Anything by Shannon Baker
The Guessing Game by Sean Eads
Straight to the Top by Trevor Jones

Table Of Contents From Beyond

Bitten Off by Edward Bryant
A Clamor of Bones by Alyssa Wong
Divided They Fall by Patrick Berry
Jane Doe Must Die by Angie Hodapp
Outsorcery by Joshua Viola
Do It Already by Stephen Graham Jones
Lunchtime by Jeanne C. Stein
Numeral Eleven by Jason Heller
A Rose by Any Other Name by Betsy Dornbusch
Shoe by Aaron Michael Ritchey
Card Sharp by Kat Richardson
Takers Find Givers by Mario Acevedo
The Combo by Warren Hammond
The Group Home by Chris Holm
Afterword by Christine Goff
The Ash of the Phoenix: Remembering Edward Bryant by Sean Eads