Gutter Books

10/10/2019

Word on the street is Nick Kowlakowski will be slumming it on Skid Row next week.

17/07/2018

The Tuesday Review: Broken Ground, by Joe Clifford.

Joe Clifford is back with his latest installment of the Jay Porter series, Broken Ground, and some things have not changed. Porter is ...

01/07/2018

Ever want to lose yourself in a real mystery? Eryk Pruitt has your ticket.

http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2018/07/the-long-dance-podcast-with-eryk-pruitt.html

For the last two years , Eryk Pruitt has been down a rabbit hole with a few comrades trying to get to the bottom of a forty-seven year-old m...

10/06/2018

David Nemeth is in the Gutter.

Music festivals are meant to highlight peace, love, and empathy. . . At least back in 1969 they were. There Are Worse Thin...

25/04/2018

It's been a while since we've had a special edition of Bare Knuckles Pulp.
Josh Hattam shares with us a slice of his memoir. Please enjoy, The Fireman Song.
http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2018/04/the-fireman-song-by-josh-hattam.html

17/04/2018

This week on the Gutter's Tuesday Review: The Chalk Man, by C.J. Tudor.

The past is never far… I went outside my usual comfort zone with my latest read and I am really glad I did. I sunk my teeth into C.J. ...

10/04/2018

The Gutter Tuesday Review: Slaughterhouse Blues, by Nick Kolakowski.

I recently tore through Nick Kolakowski ’s latest installment in the Love & Bullets trilogy, Slaughterhouse Blues and I am here to bear w...

03/04/2018

The Gutter Tuesday Review: Texas Two-Step, by Michael Pool

Michael Pool put me on notice when I first read Debt Crusher, his first novel. He has lived up to the promise that book offered glimpses ...

27/03/2018

The Gutter Tuesday Review: Tin Men, by Mike Knowles.

I have considered myself a fan of Mike Knowles since I read his first book in his incredible Wilson series. His writing is well-plotted a...

27/02/2018

The Gutter Tuesday Review: You Were Never Really There, by Johnathan Ames.

Few things match the excitement of finding an unheard of book which floors you like a punch to the gut, only to learn the author has other...

20/02/2018

The Tuesday Review!
May, by Marietta Miles.

While I already count myself as a Marietta Miles fan from my reading of Route 12 , her first book, nothing prepared me for her follow-up ...

19/02/2018

Admission, I've fantasized about turning my stories into movies. I don't let myself get too bogged down in the daydreams, yet it is so fun ...

23/01/2018

Review: Greg Barth breaks the rules with The Bloodletting.

“It has never been my habit to write about the good and decent folks” – Greg Barth It was with some apprehension I tackled Greg Barth ’...

16/01/2018

“You’re the dirt in which you stand. You’ve never been anything. You’ll never be anyone. You’ll always get taken, be brought down, get kick...

16/01/2018

This week's Tuesday Review: Accidental Outlaws, by Matt Phillips.

“You’re the dirt in which you stand. You’ve never been anything. You’ll never be anyone. You’ll always get taken, be brought down, get kick...

09/01/2018

This week's Tuesday Review: Meat City on Fire, by Angel Colón

Down and Out Books has come out with some great books as of late and they just pushed the bar even higher with the release of Angel Luis Co...

26/12/2017

No Tuesday Review .... because it's Boxing Day, fool!
Happy Boxing Day from your pals in the Gutter: Derrick, Rob, Hector, Tom, Joe, and Matthew.

19/12/2017

Review: Gutter presents: Derrick Horodyski's Best of 2017!
(With Alec Cizak, Paul Heatley, Greg Barth, Chris Rhatigan, Joe Clifford, Jordan Harper, Tom Pitts, Jon Bassoff, and Daniel Vlasaty!

Another year down and another year full of great books from great authors. Here is a list of my Top 10 books from 2017. I looked at the rev...

12/12/2017

Derrick serves us up something a little different for the yuletide: Martin Stanley's Get Santa.

As a reward for being a fan and an email subscriber to Martin Stanley ’s newsletters, fans of Stanley were recently emailed a 13,500-word s...

05/12/2017

The Tuesday Review: Knuckledragger, by Rusty Barnes

“I took a chocked up hold on the rubber grip of the bat and smashed his right elbow. I could feel the bone compress and break. It took the ...

28/11/2017

The Tuesday Review: The Mentor, by Lee Matthew Goldberg.

Let me start this review by just getting this out of the way: The Mentor is a flat-out kick-ass, balls-to-the-wall thriller that had me ho...

21/11/2017

After being beaten and left for dead, Steven finds himself stranded alongside the 101 in a small Northern California town. When a mysterious stranger named Quinn offers a hand in exchange for help reuniting with his daughter in San Francisco, Steven gets in the car and begins a journey from which...

21/11/2017

The Tuesday Review: Crossed Bones by Steve W. Lauden!

Just finished Crossed Bones by S.W. Lauden and I am ashamed this great piece of writing slipped past me for so long. This is a continuati...

31/10/2017

Derrick and his Tuesday review is back!
This week: Harlan Coben's Don't Let Go.

One of my simple pleasures in my reading life is getting to jump into a Harlan Coben novel and lose myself in the worlds he has created. W...

05/09/2017

The Tuesday Review: Down on the Street, by Alec Cizak

It’s a sign of a great book when its grit and grime cover the reader to the point they need a shower when they finish the book. Down on the...

22/08/2017

The Tuesday Review: Everglade, by Greg Barth.

It is with a heavy heart I turned the final pages of Greg Barth ’s 5th, and final, addition to the Selena series, Everglade . This has been...

15/08/2017

The Tuesday Review: Here and Gone, by Haylen Beck
http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2017/08/review-here-and-gone-by-haylen-beck.html

Hereand Gone by Haylen Beck , deals with every parent’s nightmare; losing your child. But for Audra the circumstances are more bizarre tha...

25/07/2017

This week on the Tuesday Review: Alex Segura's Dangerous Ends
http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2017/07/review-dangerous-ends-by-alex-segura.html

Ever since I was a kid, one of my favorite magic tricks has been when the magician takes 3 different colored scarves, pushed them into the ...

18/07/2017

The Tuesday Review is up!
We've got She Rides Shotgun, by Jordan Harper (who--coincidentally--is on Pitts' Skid Row Chatter this Wednesday.)

“He wanted to choke the world if only he could find its fu***ng neck.” – She Rides Shotgun Jordan Harper has previously released two c...

13/07/2017

CRIME's infamous Johnny Strike is back with something completely different.

THE SAD TALE OF SUZY YEN Sparse weeds swaying in the wind, Gentle Asian dancers, Who are not faraway but rather in a theater, On a stag...

11/07/2017

This week on the Tuesday Review: Joe Clifford's Give Up the Dead.

“Heroic is everyman. You. Me. No talent or skill required. Just a willingness to go toe-to-toe with the best, take the hits, not let the ba...

24/06/2017

David Corbett's latest. Get some!!

Phelan Tierney helps people who hope to start their lives over. When Jacquelina Garza, a young woman he’s taken under his wing, disappears, the former lawyer devotes himself to finding her—despite her secretive and puzzlingly unhelpful family.Jacqi has been to hell and back. Abducte...

20/06/2017

This week at the Tuesday Review:
American Static, by Tom Pitts

It is always a pleasure to bear witness to an author grow with each book they publish. Novellas become novels, characters become more flesh...

13/06/2017

Bassoff is back and better than ever. Derrick gives his highest recommendation ever on this week's Tuesday Review.

“ The truth is that we all need to create a narrative, a narrative stuffed full of lies, because otherwise the suffering would be too much,...