Thriller
6 Degrees Harder
By Various Authors
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6 unique voices in Crime Fiction join forces to deliver 6 edge of the
seat thrillers, guaranteed to keep you guessing till the end.

Even Money—by Trudey Martin. This is a stand-alone Verity Spencer short story set a few weeks after the events of No Deadly Medicine, the first full-length book in the series. Can you ever really bury a secret…? A random act of kindness plunged Verity Spencer into a world of criminality and cover-ups. After discovering and exposing a web of murder, deceit, and corruption in No Deadly Medicine, her life will never be the same again. Unwilling to return to her boring job as a college lecturer, and still mourning her husband, she’s filling her time chasing errant husbands and wives for money. She needs to decide what to do next. Susanna Means approaches Verity believing that her partner is being unfaithful…but as Verity looks into his life she realises that he may be holding a much darker secret…
 But has he buried it deep enough…? This story is 12.5k words long

Identity–by Kenneth James Allen. Are you completely satisfied with your life? Do you want more from it? These are the questions the enigmatic Xavier Titan Cane asks stationery salesman Scott Harris after a chance meeting in an airport bathroom. Xavier tells Scott he can change his life, help him become who he is meant to be. All Scott needs to do is access Identity, an application that has been mysteriously installed on his phone. Xavier is hiding secrets. And life just got a little more complicated for Scott. Would you give up your life if you could live your fantasy? This story is 14k words long

The Pusher’s List–by Michael Angel. Supermarket cart pusher Colin Webb’s day goes from bad to terrifying the day he comes across a note scrawled in a child’s hand: Pleze Help Us We R Kidnaped. Colin’s co-workers dismiss the note as a joke. Colin’s boss threatens to fire him if he takes any action. But Colin knows, deep down, that unless he can figure out who the kidnapper is, any chance of rescuing the victims will vanish without a trace. This story is 6k words long

Intruder–by Eoghan Egan. A father’s biggest fear. A mother’s greatest dread. A family’s worst nightmare. This story is 2.5k words long.

Defector–by Peter Kozmar. Moscow 1993 and CIA agent Andy Flint lands an important mission, secure the immediate defection of a high value asset. Flint soon finds himself facing a ruthless opponent, Oleg Malchik, a dynamic FSB agent who’s closing down Western intelligence networks one after another. With Malchik closing in, Flint has his own problems with the local Mafia. But things turn for the worse when Malchik wants Flint dead. With the FSB and the Mafia in hot pursuit, Flint believes there’s a mole helping Malchik. Who can Flint trust? Can he complete his mission? Who will get to him first, the Mafia or Malchik? This story is 28k words long

A Random Act–by MJ Newman. She needs urgent help, but is the ‘Good Samaritan’ everything he seems? ‘It was the eyes. I saw something in them. A memory, a vulnerability, hidden behind the glazed mask. A different life, one I’d long forgotten. I didn’t need to get involved. A violation of my parole. The fact that I’d stopped, lingered a moment longer than everyone else on the sidewalk, that in itself was enough to put me back inside.’ This story is 1.2k words long