Congratulations to the June Winner of the Down & Out Books Summer Celebration Giveaway!

Roger of Fords NJ was randomly selected as the June winner of our Summer Celebration Giveaway and will receive a prize package that includes a selection of Down & Out Books titles, a logo T-shirt and keychain.

If you haven't yet entered our giveaway, there is still plenty of time…and two more winners to be selected! Simply visit this link before August 31st and enter to win!

Summer 2017 Savings in the Down & Out Bookstore

Visit the Down & Out Bookstore this Summer for Special Deals on Book and eBook Purchases.

• Use Coupon Code SAVE20 to save 20% off your purchase of $60 or more plus FREE shipping within the US; or

• Use Coupon Code B4G1FREE to receive your lowest-priced ebook for FREE when you purchase five or more.

Coupon codes are valid through 09/06/17.

Coming in August to the Down & Out Bookstore

We have three new titles to add some sizzle to your August!

On August 7th, the very exciting THE BLACK KACHINA by Jack Getze is published. Set in Southern California, it's a race against time to prevent a madman from destroying Hoover Dam!

Later that same week, on the 11th, LES CANNIBALES, a crime novella by DeLeon DeMicoli comes out from Shotgun Honey, an imprint of Down & Out Books. It's dog-eat-dog as three thieves plan their escape from a galley as a S.W.A.T. closes in.

Finally, on August 14th, a stellar collection of short stories by Beau Johnson, A BETTER KIND OF HATE, hits the bookshelves. The world has never been perfect. The world has never been all bad. But there has always been evil and men who drink of it. This ends now.

Our Featured 99¢ Crime Novel for Late July

From July 17th through 31st, SCREEN TEST, a crime novel by Jerry Kennealy, may be purchased for just 99¢ on Kindle, Nook, iTunes, and Kobo. Also available from the Down & Out Bookstore in both .mobi and .epub formats. And don't miss the author's new Nick Polo mystery, POLO’S LONG SHOT, just out this month!

In April of 1968 Steve McQueen arrives in San Francisco to film Bullitt.

Rough-and-tumble SFPD Inspector Johnny O’Rorke, aka The Fixer, is the department’s Executive Protection Officer. His job is to make sure that visiting celebrities are well taken care of. O’Rorke is instructed to take special care of McQueen; the city’s movers and shakers are hoping to develop San Francisco into Hollywood North.

McQueen takes a liking to O’Rorke, and when Russ Cortig, a member of his film crew, is busted at a wild Haight Ashbury party, he asks O’Rorke to try to have the charge dismissed.

Fixing Cortig’s arrest sheet is a minor problem, but it leads O’Rorke into a tangled web of intrigue and corruption that includes the murder of one of his longtime informers, a crossdresser who goes by the name of Vanessa the Undresser, tangling with a Chinatown drug lord, being shot at by a sadistic Soviet hit man, going up against a wealthy former Russian Mafia leader now living in San Francisco, dealing with a vicious local gangster, Alec Zek, aka The Swine, and a chasing after a priceless blue diamond known as the Stalin Blue.

If that isn’t complicated enough, O’Rorke breaks into a real sweat when McQueen asks him to make a screen test for a part in Bullitt.

Praise for SCREEN TEST:

“Steve McQueen. Bullitt. Transvestites. Murder. And the City by the Bay. Who could ask for more? Gear up for a rockin’ roller coaster ride up and down San Francisco’s tumultuous hills in Jerry Kennealy’s entertaining, triple-fast thriller Screen Test, but make sure to wear your seatbelt.” —Paul D. Marks, Shamus Award-Winning Author of White Heat

Down & Out Authors on the Net

The latest episode of Writer Types hosted by Eric Beetner and S.W. Lauden was posted recently. Their biggest episode yet features authors Laura Lippman, Brett Battles, Richard Lange, Sam Wiebe, and more! Both Eric and Steve are up for Anthony Awards this year, Eric for his crime novel LEADFOOT and for editing UNLOADED: CRIME WRITERS WRITING WITHOUT GUNS and Steve for his crime caper CROSSWISE.

Tom Leins caught up with novelist Alec Cizak, author of DOWN ON THE STREET, in The Interrogation Room.

Beau Johnson was profiled on Our Windsor, where he talked about his upcoming short story collection A BETTER KIND OF HATE.

Nick Kolakowski was a guest on Noir on the Radio with Greg Barth, where he talked about his new Love and Bullets Hookup novella A BRUTAL BUNCH OF HEARTBROKEN SAPS.

Tom Pitts was interrogated by S.W. Lauden about his new crime thriller AMERICAN STATIC.

Earlier this year Ian Truman took a look at Crime & Punk on Do Some Damage. Ian's latest novel is the crime thriller GRAND TRUNK AND SHEARER.

Frank Zafiro interviewed Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Steve Hamilton on Wrong Place, Write Crime, who talked about his new novel EXIT STRATEGY. Frank's latest crime novel, THE LAST COLLAR, was co-written with Lawrence Kelter, who also has a new book out, BACK TO BROOKLYN.