Unloaded 2

Crime Writers Writing Without Guns

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Pub Date Jul 16 2018 | Archive Date Jul 31 2018

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***Proceeds from the sales of Unloaded will benefit the nonprofit States United To Prevent Gun Violence (ceasefireusa.org)***

Unloaded 2 is the follow up to the first Unloaded anthology. More than two dozen of today's best crime and mystery authors have joined together to use the strongest weapon at their disposal — words — in a call for reasonable gun control in the U.S.A. In this collection you get all the thrills and excitement you come to expect from a great crime story, but without any guns.

From best sellers and writing legends to the brightest stars of the next generation of crime writers, the twenty-five authors here have taken pen in hand to say enough is enough. Gun violence has got to stop and this is our way of speaking out — by showing that gun violence can be removed from the narrative, and maybe from our lives.

It's not anti-gun, it's pro-sanity. And above anything else, these are thrilling crime stories that will surprise and shock, thrill and chill — all without a gun in sight.

The writers are from both sides of the political aisle and many of the authors are gun owners themselves. But everyone felt it was time to speak out. Featuring the talents of Chris Holm, Laura McHugh, James Ziskin, Steve Cavanaugh, Terry Shames, Dave White, Bill Crider, Alex Segura, Dana King, James R. Tuck, Kris Calvin, Andrew Case, Jay Stringer, Jon McGoran, Lori Rader-Day, Michael Kardos, Josh Stallings, John Rector, Lili White, Nick Kolakowski, Scott Loring Sanders, David James Keaton, E.A. Amar, Sara Paretsky, and Eric Beetner.

***Proceeds from the sales of Unloaded will benefit the nonprofit States United To Prevent Gun Violence (ceasefireusa.org)***

Unloaded 2 is the follow up to the first Unloaded anthology. More than two...


Advance Praise

"Since firearms are banned from the 22 entertaining and often thought-provoking stories in this sequel to 2016’s Unloaded, the contributors have come up with some surprising methods to create mayhem alongside the more usual alternatives of poison and knives. Highlights include Scott Loring Sanders’s “Magic 8 Ball” and Terry Shames’s “You Kill Me,” which demonstrate that there are definitely more ways than one to dispose of a troublesome spouse. Lori Rader-Day’s unsettling character study, “Outlaws,” charts a child’s wariness hardening into cynicism. Striking a lighter note is James W. Ziskin’s “Pan Paniscus,” in which a clever escapee from a zoo’s primate enclosure is instrumental in solving a crime. The anthology concludes with a sobering essay, “The Center,” in which E.A. Aymar describes his first-hand brush with gun violence. Many readers will come away agreeing with Sara Paretsky, who says in her introduction: “without the presence of any guns, we are using our words to say that the guns aren’t necessary to the plot, and indeed in our lives.”                           —Publishers Weekly


"Since firearms are banned from the 22 entertaining and often thought-provoking stories in this sequel to 2016’s Unloaded, the contributors have come up with some surprising methods to create mayhem...


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