Indefatigable promoter of PI fiction and friend of the blog
Jochem Vandersteen has done it again. Literally. Following up on the success of
last year’s The Shamus Sampler (a collection
of PI shorts, foreword by Reed Farrel Coleman), Jochem and his Sons of Spade blog have released The Shamus Sampler II. (Anyone
interested in what’s going on with PI fiction right now needs to keep an eye on SOS.)
This is a first class e-book, from the excellent cover by
Keith Dixon through the foreword by Timothy Hallinan (author of the Poke
Rafferty thrillers and Junior Bender series) and the (mostly) solid assemblage of
authors: Nick Andreychuk, Michael W. Clark, Peter DeChellis, Michael Koenig,
Nick Quantrill, Graham Smith, Ben Solomon, Gareth Spark, Phillip Thompson, Mark
Troy, Will Viharo, and Jochem himself. I even managed to sneak in a Nick Forte
story while the Quality Control folks weren’t looking.
The
Shamus Sampler II is available for Kindle for
the ridiculously low price of $2.99. That’s a mere 23 cents a
story. (Twenty-one cents if you include the foreword, which you should, because
it’s really good.) Buying a copy is like stealing, without the potential downside
of spending five years pondering your life errors as Big Bubba’s Bathroom
Bitch.
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