Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider

by Rick Ollerman, Angela Crider Neary, William Kent Krueger

In a career spanning nearly four decades, Bill Crider published more than sixty crime fiction, westerns, horror, men’s adventure and YA novels. In this collection 20 of today’s best and brightest, all friends and fans of Bill’s, come together with original stories to pay tribute to his memory. Authors William Kent Krueger, Bill Pronzini, Joe R. Lansdale, Patricia Abbott, Ben Boulden, Michael Bracken, Jen Conley, Brendan DuBois, Charlaine Harris, David Housewright, Kasey Lansdale, Angela Crider Neary, James Reasoner, James Sallis, Terry Shames, S. A. Solomon, Sara Paretsky, Robert J. Randisi, SJ Rozan, and Eryk Pruitt. William Kent Krueger (Ordinary Grace, the Cork O’Connor series) brings us a story of romance and grift. Bill Pronzini (the Nameless Detective and Carpenter & Quincannon series) offers a taut episode of a midnight raid. Joe R. Lansdale (The Bottoms, the Hap and Leonard series) tells a tale of two hit men working through their differences. James Sallis (Drive, the Lew Griffin series) shows us how a deadly figure once helped out a man called Bill. Charlaine Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight, Texas series) reminds us to be careful of what we wish for. Sara Paretsky (the V.I. Warshawski series) shows how truly deadly a terrible storm can be. These and fourteen more stories are offered here in the appreciation of our friend and colleague, Bill Crider. These stories were written for him.

Genres: Short Stories

352 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 10, 2021

Reviews

[Sandra Hawkins]

This is the best book I have read in a long time. Each story was unique, well written and held my inerest. I wish there were more like this book

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an anthology of stories by various authors. They’re stories in tribute to author Bill Crider. I am not familiar with his work, but short stories are always welcome on my Kindle, so I checked it out.

There are several good stories here, that I wished were novels. I’m inspired to check out Crider’s work, as well as that of some of the authors included here.

Basically noir, crime, mystery type stories.