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A Warhammer Crime Anthology In the sprawling hive city of Varangantua, crime lords and gangers, law enforcers, and vigilantes live cheek-by-jowl – killers, thieves, and worse from all echelons of society doing what they can to survive. READ IT BECAUSE Return to Varangantua, a decaying hellscape where only the ruthless prosper. In such a choking and claustrophobic environment, neither law-maker nor law-breaker is safe from dark desperation or suspicion. The tension is palpable, and the threats are real. THE STORY In Once a Killer, Always a Killer by Mitchel Scanlon, Sanctioner Kirian Malenko goes after a former pit fighter on a killing spree, but knows more about the killer than he cares to admit, Chains by Jonathan D. Beer sees a cartel and a gang lord go head to head for the release of a valuable prisoner, and in Slate Run by Mike Brooks, a bodyguard gets more than she bargained for when she is hired for a gilded function… These collected tales of murder, betrayal, and corruption also contain stories from Nick Kyme, Denny Flowers, Jude Reid, Gareth Hanrahan, and Victoria Hayward. Welcome to Varangantua – watch your back. - Chains (Short story) by Jonathan D Beer - Slate Run (Short story) by Mike Brooks - No City for Heroes (Short story) by Victoria Hayward - Clear as Glass (Short story) by Denny Flowers - Skeletons (Short story) by Nick Kyme - Once a Killer, Always a Killer (Short story) by Mitchel Scanlon - Grit in the Wheels (Short story) by Gareth Hanrahan - Habeas Corpus (Short story) by Jude Reid
Authors
Mike Brooks was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and moved to Nottingham when he was 18 to go to university. He’s stayed there ever since, and now lives with his wife, two cats, two snakes and a collection of tropical fish. When not working for a homelessness charity he plays guitar and sings in a punk band, watches football (soccer), MMA and nature/science documentaries, goes walking in the Peak District or other areas of splendid scenery, and DJs wherever anyone will tolerate him. And, y’know, writes.
Victoria Hayward is a historian by training, publicly funded artist and mother of birds. She is the author of ‘The Carbis Incident’ and ‘The Siege of Ismyr’ for Black Library and is a contributor to the academic anthology ‘Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine.' When not writing SFF she works in science communication, helping academics tell stories about their research whether it be on black holes or the palaces of despots. She spent one weird summer working in Westminster which has absolutely nothing to do with her interest in writing about dystopian bureaucracies.
Jonathan D. Beer is a science fiction and alternative history writer, whose stories for Black Library have appeared in the anthologies BROKEN CITY and SANCTION AND SIN, and in the Warhammer Crime Week 2022. Equally obsessed by the nineteenth century and the 41st millennium, he lives with his wife and assorted cats in the untamed wilderness of Edinburgh, Scotland.
