Edge of Crime is a collection of over twenty crime short stories for fans of noir, hardboiled crime, police procedurals, mysteries and dark suspense. Several of the stories have been published before in magazines and anthologies in the UK.
The short stories include:
Afterburn - a retired astronaut investigates the death of an old friend (mystery)
Diamond Pass – a man returns to his home town and discovers shocking secrets (crime drama)
Distant Relatives - a man and his daughter cross the dangerous Australian Outback (crime drama)
Pulling No Punches - a boxer risks his life for his family (noir)
Falling in Love – a greedy husband tries to kill his new wife with unexpected complications (noir)
Hollywood Asylum – a reclusive screenwriter meets a beautiful woman living next door (noir)
The Kidnapping – a light-hearted tale about an unusual kidnapping (comic crime)
Deal Breaker – a little girl needs the help of a lawyer to get justice (legal drama)
Bad Advertising – a man hears a murder happen in the flat below him (suspense)
Patriotic Duty - a headless body leads a New Orleans detective to a gang of killers (action and suspense)
My Cousin Shunsuke – a teenage girl helps her cousin investigate the death of his girlfriend (mystery)
The Abduction – a man disappears at a convention for ufologists (mystery)
On the Road – two couples have a deadly journey (crime drama)
Fever Pitch – an ex-convict looks for revenge (suspense)
The Good Samaritan – an Australian trucker soon wishes he had not stopped for two people on a lonely road (dark suspense)
The Pledge – a college student encounters a dangerous secret society (thriller)
The Enigma of Lucy Ash – a beautiful woman returns home with tragic consequences (noir)
A Deadly Prelude – a music producer has to make a deadly decision when he discovers a new artist (crime drama)
The New Boss – DCI Lisa Boone investigates the drowning deaths of three young people in a Welsh town (detective, mystery)
Flash Stories:
The Vow
The Eggs
Bonus: Afterburn 2.0 (alternative version with different plot)
John Moralee writes crime and horror stories, often mixing the two genres together into dark suspense fiction. He lives in the UK, where his short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Mammoth Book of Future Cops, Crimewave and the British Fantasy Society's magazine Peeping Tom. Many collections of his short fiction are available as e-books. They include The Bone Yard and Other Stories, Bloodways, Edge of Crime, Blue Ice, The Good Soldier, and a science fiction collection The Tomorrow Tower. He is also the author of the novels Acting Dead, Journal of the Living and The Legend of King Arthur.
