BUSTED FLUSH PRESS was created in 2005 by David Thompson, an employee of Houston's Murder By The Book, one of the nation's oldest and largest mystery bookstores. The intent of the press is to reprint fine thrillers and hard-boiled crime fiction. You can order these books from Murder By The Book or a wonderful mystery bookstore near you. Check out the links on the right to find out all the information you want to know about BFP and the books we produce. We do reprints and anthologies as well as limited editions. There is also information for booksellers, a list of places to buy the books, a list of author events in Houston and a way to contact us. And last but not least, please join our Mailing List to keep up with what's new with BFP.   NEW!  NPR's Maureen Corrigan profiled Reed Farrel Coleman on Fresh Air, May 15th. Read the transcript or hear the story here.   David now has a blog!   Read Bill Crider's "Cranked," the 2007 Edgar Award-nominated short story from DAMN NEAR DEAD here (PDF format). It was also nominated for the Anthony Award and was the winner of the Derringer Award!   Daniel Woodrell's story, "Uncle," in A Hell of a Woman was nominated for an Anthony Award and a 2008 Edgar® for Best Short Story!   Cornelia Read's story, "Hungry Enough," in A Hell of a Woman, was nominated for a 2008 Shamus Award!   NOW AVAILABLE!! Just Another Day in Paradise, by A.E. Maxwell Back in print! "A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with plenty of humanity. The toughness of Robert B. Parker's early Spenser novels blended with the wry humor and scope of Ross Thomas. Wholly original, endlessly entertaining. The books of A. E. Maxwell are a forgotten treasure."    —Tim Maleeny The James Deans, by Reed Farrel Coleman Back in print, the Shamus / Barry / Anthony Award-winning third Moe Prager novel. With a new foreword by New York Times best-seller Michael Connelly and two Moe Prager short stories! Plus, a special excerpt from 2009's original novel, Tower, by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman. "Some writers can make you feel that they have inhabited their characters to a degree associated with demonic possession, but Reed Farrel Coleman's gift is to graft that sensation onto the reader, so that he or she feels they're wearing the character like skin...[A] terrific writer, one of the finest of his generation. If you haven't read The James Deans yet, do yourself a favour and do so. It's how books are supposed to be."    —Declan Burke, author of The Big O     COMING SOON! Impolite Society, by Cynthia Smith "You want a heroine who never takes guff from anyone? Who does things her own way and be damned to anyone who doesn't like it? Then sit down with this book, and enjoy the immensely entertaining, never boring Emma Rhodes."    —Dean James, award-winning author of the Wanda Nell Culpepper mysteries (writing as Jimmie Ruth Evans) For fans of Nancy Martin, Kerry Greenwood, Marne Davis Kellogg, and Jane Stanton Hitchcock! A. E. Maxwell's Fiddler & Fiora series, finally back in print! The Frog and the Scorpion (June 2009) Gatsby's Vineyard (November 2009) Just Enough Light to Kill (February 2010) "The writing is lean and restrained, and Fiddler, growing from book to book, gives Travis McGee a real run for his money."    —Los Angeles Times "Maxwell is good, really good, able to create believable, engaging, and original characters and set them plausibly into a story of nonstop suspense"    —Chicago Sun-Times     AWARD NOMINATIONS Bill Crider's "Cranked" (from Damn Near Dead) was nominated for a 2007 Edgar® Award nomination for Best Short Story! PLUS... Bill Crider's "Cranked" and Stuart MacBride's "Daphne McAndrews & the Smack-Head Junkies", from Damn Near Dead, was nominated for 2007 Derringer Awards PLUS... Damn Near Dead was nominated for two 2007 Anthony Awards for Best Short Story: Bill Crider's "Cranked" and Megan Abbott's "Policy"!

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