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Switchblade
Issue Four
2018
First Published
4.88
Average Rating
131
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Switchblade returns with another lethal dose of outlaw fiction. Rage, retribution, revenge—that’s just the tip of the stiletto. Greed, bloodlust, infamy—the more you read, the deeper the laceration; twisting as it mangles. Featuring 14 choice cuts from Pearce Hansen, Nick Manzolillo, J.D. Graves, Keith Rawson, Max Sheridan, Diana Deverell, Peter DiChellis, Henry Brock, A.B. Patterson, Lisa Douglass, Aaron Majewski, Mike Derochick, Tais Teng, and Jeffrey Burton. Twisted and barbed like your ex; sharp and deadly like the femme fatale you know you can’t resist—Switchblade Issue Four: it ain’t your grandma’s Ellery Queen.

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Authors

Pearce Hansen
Pearce Hansen
Author · 5 books

Pearce Hansen is the author of Street Raised//https://www.amazon.com/Street-Raised-.... Pearce Hansen is an Oakland native residing in Seattle with his wife Pia. Pearce's fiction is inspired by events and experiences from his youth growing up in the East Bay. He's been writing 20 years with over 100 publications including three novels, one short story collection and six anthology inclusions. He's an alumnus of Anthony Neil Smith's legendary Plots With Guns! and Todd Robinson's Thuglit. He's been reviewed by Eddie Muller in the SF Chronicle, and blurbed by Joe Lansdale, Michael Shea, Ken Bruen and Laird Barron. His work's been translated into Finnish and Spanish, and adapted as a limited edition comic book.

Max Sheridan
Max Sheridan
Author · 1 books
Max Sheridan is the weirdo who wrote the novels Dillo and God's Speedboat, and the Pushcart unshortlisted classics A Penis Boot, Mud Hustler, and I Went to Work at IKEA After Bobby Got Killed at the Bowling Alley. Find his latest tale, Bobby Two Winds, in Pulp Queer Westerns.
Diana Deverell
Diana Deverell
Author · 10 books

A native Oregonian, Diana Deverell was a US Foreign Service Officer and served in Washington DC, San Salvador, and Warsaw, before she moved to rural Denmark to write fulltime. Her latest release is LAY BARE THE LIE, the sixth book in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series, featuring a woman ex-con turned appeals lawyer. The first five books in order are HELP Me NORA, RIGHT THE WRONG, HEAR MY PLEA, JUDGE ME NOT, and OPEN THE DOOR. “Mercy Find Me”, a story spun off the series, was a finalist for the 2019 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction. and is now available as an ebook short story. Diana debuted as a published writer in 1998 with 12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING, her first Casey Collins International Thriller. 12 Drummers Drumming, her first international thriller. The latest thriller in the series is CHINA BOX. The four-book series spans seventeen years in the career of her heroine, State Department intelligence analyst Casey Collins. Diana has also written the political thriller BITCH OUT OF HELL starring security pro Bella Hinton and told in Bella’s own salty words. Bella is the heroine of “Payback is a Bitch,” a short story appearing in the Fiction River – Pulse Pounders: Countdown, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. Before shining in stories of her own, Bella played a supporting role in several international thrillers taking place from the Cold War to the present. Diana’s published short fiction includes five stories starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd which are available as ebook short stories. Dawna’s early adventures are collected in RUN & GUN: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns and she plays a supporting role in BITCH OUT OF HELL and three international thrillers.

A.B. Patterson
A.B. Patterson
Author · 3 books

A. B. Patterson is an Australian writer who knows first-hand about corruption, power, crime and sex. He was a Detective Sergeant in the WA Police, working in paedophilia and vice, and later was a Chief Investigator with the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. He now lives in Sydney and loves to holiday in France. In 2015 he published his debut crime novel, "Harry's World". The sequel, "Harry's Quest", was published in 2018. He has also had short crime fiction published in the US, in "Switchblade" magazine and "Econoclash Review". In 2020 he published his first collection of short stories, "Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service".

Nick Manzolillo
Nick Manzolillo
Author · 2 books

Nick Manzolillo is another bearded Manhattanite wizard whose writing has appeared in over thirty publications including Thuglit, Wicked Witches: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers, Grievous Angel and the Tales To Terrify podcast. He has an MFA in Creative and Professional Writing from Western Connecticut State University, and by day, he works as a content operations specialist for TopBuzz, a news app. I'd rather keep writing books than list the ones I've read on here.

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