I'm Not Happy Till You're Not Happy

by Ryan Sayles

From a bank robbery gone horribly wrong to a shipwrecked man with a serious anger problem to a lonely teenage Peeping Tom, Ryan Sayles’s second collection of stories steam rolls along. Need a transvestite beating up her drug dealer? Got it. What about a guy trying to stuff a dead hooker into his trunk? Got it also. Need a Richard Dean Buckner story? Got two of ’em. Come on in and join the mayhem.

166 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 13, 2016

Reviews

[Math · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great collection of stories with lots of variety and different themes. I highly recommend it.

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty solid collection of crime fiction stories. There are a variety of gritty stories. They include a bank robbery gone bad when the not-all- there kid brother stumbles with a loaded gun that was supposed to be empty. The stories include another robbery gone wrong with the twisted aftermath told from two star-crossed lovers' points of view. I particularly like these two robbery stories. There's a story about how some teenagers have difficulty fitting in and the dangers of voyeurism. Of course, there are the usual stories about transvestites who know how to fight and dead hookers in trunks and what happens. And, it rounds out with a cops and robbers story. These stories are not sledgehammer attacks but slowly build up to the climaxes. The stories do not generally end up where you think they are going. There is generally a twist or a change of direction or point of view. If you like gritty crime fiction, you will not go wrong reading this collection.

[M.T. Bass · Rating 4 out of 5]

The pages of this book flipped fast like the slap of a gumshoe's soles on the wet pavement of an alley in hot pursuit of justice for a client. With more plot twists than the intestines of a gut shot villain and told with classic, hard-boiled metaphors and similes flying like lead spit from a Glock, these stories are a very fun read.