Devil: a crime novella

by Maynard Sims

Overview

Ruthless yet wildly attractive. As lawless as the criminals he defends.

Top defence lawyer Marshall Masters may have taken on a gangster too far in his latest corrupt venture.

He revels in his nickname but the Devil knows he must carry on winning if he is to stay on top.

In this fast paced and occasionally violent crime thriller, Masters comes up against worthy opponents on both sides of the law.

His love of money, women and danger combine to give him the devil of a good time.

Can a man who represents the Law be a law unto himself?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781539791225
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/27/2016
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

MAYNARD SIMS www.maynard-sims.com

The DCI Jack Callum series of crime novels - No Evil, Prime Evil, and For Her Sins - and the box-set of all three books, The Detective Jack Callum Trilogy. The Bahamas series of thriller novels - Touching The Sun, Calling Down The Lightning, and Raging Against The Storm. The Department 18 series of supernatural crime novels - Black Cathedral, Night Souls, The Eighth Witch, A Plague Of Echoes, Mother Of Demons and Tashkai Kiss. The crime novels Let Death Begin, Through The Sad Heart, and Falling Apart At The Edges. The supernatural novels, Shelter, Demon Eyes, Nightmare City, Stronghold, and Stillwater. The erotic romance novels, under a pseudonym, The Love Project and The Romance Project.

A screenplay, based on the first two Department 18 books, won the 2013 British Horror Film Festival Award for Best New Screenplay.

Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines. Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, Falling Into Heaven 2004, The Odd Ghosts, 2011, and Flame And Other Enigmatic Tales, and A Haunting Of Ghosts, both 2012. Their tenth collection of ghost stories and strange tales - Death's Sweet Echo - which includes all their recent and new stories, many of them previously unpublished, is 2016.

Novellas, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, His Other Son, and Convalescence have been published in 2002, 2003, 2013 and 2015 respectively. All their stories and novellas have been reprinted in eight uniform volumes through The Maynard Sims Library in 2014. An erotic romance novella, First Time Love, was 2015, and book 2 in the series, First Time Arousal, is 2016. Devil is a 2016 crime novella.

They worked as editors on the nine volumes of Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They have written essays. They still do commissioned editing projects, most recently Dead Water, and the Capital Crimes anthology for the ITW. They do ghost writing commissions.