The Kill Zone authors debut FRESH KILLS, an e-book collection of original stories

[Kathryn Lilley]

In a departure from business-as-usual in the publishing world, seven top suspense authors of a popular literary blog have banded together to debut Fresh
Kills, an e-book collection of original stories.

The authors of the Kill Zone blog (www.killzoneauthors.blogspot.com), who include New York Times bestsellers John Gilstrap (Hostage Zero)
and John Ramsey Miller (Inside Out), developed
the idea for an e-book anthology during the recent buzz over the digital publishing
revolution.

“Recently the blog was discussing the e-book revolution, and I thought, why don’t we jump into it with what we do best––killer stories,” said James Scott Bell (Try Dying), who served as general editor of the anthology.

The stories in Fresh Kills vary in mood and theme from the paranormal to action-oriented to traditional mystery. In John Gilstrap’s “In The After,” an intruder demands the impossible of Tony Emerson—he wants to set the clock back 18 years and
retrieve the childhood that Tony stole from him.  John Ramsey Miller’s “Family Again” tells of
an orphaned child who gets lost in the woods and, while searching for refuge,
knocks on the wrong door. In James Scott Bell’s “Laughing Matters,” a
down-on-his-luck comedian gets a big break, though it comes with a very strange
string attached.  Michelle Gagnon’s “The
Chicken Guy” reveals how FBI Special Agent Kelly Jones—who was first introduced
in her novel The Tunnels—survives an
encounter with a ruthless killer in an abandoned chicken processing plant. Joe
Moore’s “Final Flight” delivers a gripping tale of a WWII pilot on a secret
mission with a mysterious cargo who lets his curiosity get the best of him. In
Kathryn Lilley’s paranormal story, “Blood Remains,” a victim of childhood abuse
returns home after many years only to discover that while memories fade, blood
remains. In Clare Langley-Hawthorne’s story, “The Angel in the Garden,”
Australian police constable Duff McManus must confront both the death of a childhood
friend long considered a traitor, as well as his own wartime memories.