Crimeucopia - Crank It Up!

by Ed Teja

Just An Eight Banger With Big BaloneysIn July 1886 the newspapers reported on the first public outing of the three-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car, model no. 1 — a mere 6 months after filing the patent in January of that year.Since then the race has been on for the Bigger-Faster-Better-More product that has become a variety of symbols over the decades, with the C3 Corvette Stingray repeatedly stated as being purchased almost exclusively as a middle-age crisis mobile.So, to honour motor transportation in some of its many roles in the crime fiction genre, we have gathered together a fine collection of short pieces that we feel, in one way or another, will crank up your adrenaline and get your emotions racing without making you blow a gasket or strip a Ed Teja, John A. Connor, Ruth Morgan, Jesse Aaron, Scotch Rutherford, Billie Livingston, Robert Petyo, John Elliott, M.E. Proctor, William Kitcher, R. M. Linning, Annie Reed, Wil A. Emerson, Dan A. Cardoza, Alan J. Wahnefried,Sam Wiebe, Jon Fain, and Mark James McDonoughWe hope you’ll find something that you immediately like, as well as something that takes you out of your regular racing line comfort zone — and puts you into a completely new one. In other words, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Press never know what you like until you read it.

306 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2023

About the author

Ed Teja has been a boat bum, magazine editor, freelance writer, poet, and musician. And always a traveler, traveling and writing, but seldom writing about travel. Instead he writes about the places he goes, mostly places that lie in the margins of the world. He loves writing about the odd people, the interesting people who inhabit those margins.

Reviews

[Marni Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the uniting theme of this anthology -- cars. Every story has a vehicle in it to one degree or another. As with all story collections, I connected with some more than others. Some stand outs for me were: Borrowed by M.E. Proctor, Retrograde by R.M. Linning, Always a Price to Pay by Billie Livingston, The Prospect by Sam Wiebe, Shoe Shoe Sh'boogie, by Jon Fain, and Hot August Ice, by Annie Reed.